This is our first preliminary task
which had to include someone walking through a door and dialogue. In
the first shot we do not show my face which creates suspense for the
audience because they do not know who this person is and we also used
a low angle to make this person look dangerous. On the other hand
Shaiane is shot from a high angle which makes her seem weak and
vulnerable, she also has earphones in which tells the audience that
she will not hear the person walking in behind her. There is a point
of view shot which shows me walking up to Shaiane and this creates
tension for the audience because they know she has her earphones in
and you can hear the music very faintly in the clip. When Shaiane
gets shocked on the shoulders there is a shot of the paint pallet
falling on the floor which has been slowed down the add effect, but
there is also too much focus on this. In this shot Shaiane hasn’t
got her earphones in anymore which is an issue that we found after we
had finished shooting all the scenes and went to edit; the audience
can assume that the earphones fell out when Shaiane got shocked but
this makes the continuity of the clip seem unrealistic. The location
we chose was good in some ways because it was quiet and there was no
noise to disrupt the scenes but ultimately it wasn’t an ideal place
to shoot our preliminary task because we were shooting with the light
behind the action which made Shaiane’s face particularly dark while
my face was facing the light and therefore the contrast was very
noticeable. After shooting and editing this and looking at the things
we could improve in the clip we decided to do another preliminary
task.
