This establishing shot that we used at the beginning of the trailer was to let the audience know the whereabouts of the film or at least parts of it. The birds in the shot worked well because it gave it that ominous feeling. The lighting for the shot wasn’t to dark or to bright so this worked well in creating that intense feeling for a thriller. Something that is quite common in most thriller films.
This shot i think worked well because it allowed the narrative to really take place, you can see from this mid shot from behind that the impression the angle is trying to make is that the stalker is watching her and it almost gives the feel that the audience are the stalkers and can see everything that this character can see. Making the audience feel uneasy.
The lighting was very good for this shot it allowed us to see the brightness of the bushes as well as what Harley was wearing to emphasise her vulnerability.
We did this because we wanted to make sure that she as a character stood out because she is a victim and we wanted to make the impression through the camera angles.
This shot from behind her worked well because it gave the tease feeling to it then allowed the target audience to see that she was being watched and was unaware of this because the camera was facing directly in her face.
This next shot of Harley sitting in a living room on the phone is also a long shot because you can see all of her body. We decided to have this shot to distinguish how distressed the character was about having numerous unknown calls. This shot is quite long but it clearly shows the narrative that she is being stalked. The costume she is wearing is simple we didn’t want to go overboard we wanted to make her look as vulnerable as we could but not make it to obvious. This worked well because from our previous research we had seen most victim characters wearing plain and simple clothing. A typical convention of a thriller film. The lighting in this shot isn’t to bright either this was to compliment Harley and what she was doing in this shot. This worked well again because we wanted to highlight the fact she was a vulnerable character in the film.
This split screen shot was something that was the most hardest to accomplish because it took a lot of editing and time to work out how to put both clips onto final cut. We overcame this problem quickly and i think it worked well because you could see both reactions and you could also see the character whilst they were having their phone call.
We used the close up shot because we wanted to reveal the emotion on the characters faces while they were having this phone call. This worked well because this part in the trailer was the plot were the narrative then took off and then the shots started to get quicker, and the music was more intense.
This shot of Harley and bola was used to establish the story line and to make the target audience think that it was bola. The mid shot allowed the target audience to see the sort of relationship they had and we choose to use the field because it was simple and easy to film.
This shot worked well because it created tension and then allowed the audience to think about this new character that had been revealed.
The extreme close up shot of Jacobs feet was an excellent idea to create suspense as the pace of the shots started to begin. The close up shot didn’t reveal whose feet they were and it allowed the option of it being anybody’s feet. It was quite a quick shot but still maintained its purpose to create the thrill. This shot worked well because it didn’t reveal which character it was. The shot was also quite bright so that everything could be seen for the audience and that meant that the shot was good quality and didn't look to much like a horror and we still then maintained the thriller genre convention that we wanted.
This shot had a few problems with it, that being that when we were editing on the Macs the face of the character was not seen however when we switched over to a Windows computer you could then see the characters face. This was unfortunate because of the way the long shot was taken and it was an editing error. We wanted the lighting of the shot quite dark so that the target audience didn’t see whose face it was. This worked well because it again maintained the thriller suspense and along with the music in background and the fast paced shots it all merged really well.
We used this extreme close up shot, because we wanted to capture the emotion on Harley's face, because she was playing the vulnerable victim we thought putting the camera at the angle that it was at as if we as an audience were looking at her created great suspense. It worked well because the lighting wasn’t to dark it then captured all the emotion through the eyes but didn’t give away too much of the narrative at this point in the trailer.
The titles were the easiest parts of the editing I would say. We used a programme called live type something that is used on the Macs. We found it quite easy to use and we learnt how to use it in a day.
The titles were put in at the beginning because we didn’t just want the voice over we wanted facts and figures out down in the titles for the target audience to read. We made the text white and the back ground black. This worked well because it was quite thrilling and it didn’t spill over into the conventions of a horror. That was something we made sure throughout filming and editing.
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