THE EVALUATION OF ROUGH CUT 1

THE TITLE SEQUENCE

The title sequence that we used in Rough Cut 1 was mostly discrete as we tried to make it look mysterious and set the tone and genre of a thriller. However the ending includes some narrative shots, e.g.: the girl accepting stalkers friend request predicts that the story will be around those two characters. Moreover, we tried to stick with our story board as much as possible, but as we were travelling to film, we found some new places and we just couldn’t walk away without taking some shots as they seemed perfect to fit our genre, that’s why we ended up with more shots than we planned.

On the whole, our sequence is mostly made up from location shots; we wanted to establish the stalkers environment and places he would be likely to visit. We have also included scenes of him doing some really weird things as he suffers from mental disability. In addition, we created more black background gaps for the titles in-between the sequence than we planned, this is  because some shots we used were contrasting too much and didn’t look as smooth as it does with a few second gaps.

QALITY OF CAMERA

I think that we did quite well with the camera work; we used many different shots including over the shoulder and extreme close up. During the filming we were mostly using the tripod in order to make sure that the camera was steady and straight while recording.

VARIETY OF SHOT TYPES USED

We used a big variety of different shots as we were aiming for a discrete opening sequence.

WIDE SHOT

CLOSE UP SHOTS 

EXTREME CLOSE UP  

TILTING – Tunnel shot.

PANNING SHOT – the graffiti door shot.

LOW ANGLE SHOT

 OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT

LIGHTING

The scenes that we filmed were mostly done when it’s already dark. However for some of them we had to use professional filming lights from school. The shed scene was filmed without any additional lights, because the candles gave just enough light to create dramatic and mystical scene. We also used flash light for couple of scenes, e.g. the dolls head shot.

CHARACTERS

We didn’t have many characters as our aim was to make the opening look as discrete as possible, however we had some issues. The actor who was meant to play the stalker throughout the whole sequence was only available for one day, but we solved this problem by asking our other friends to help us. In total there were three different actors playing the stalker, but it’s impossible to tell as all of them were wearing jumper with a hood on and black gloves. In addition, the second character is being introduced, we made it look like the audience would know that the victim exists and see her as a character even though they can’t see her acting in the sequence.

MISE-EN-SCENE

We used some public places such as; Greenwich foot tunnel, Leyton memorial, Public Bridge and Camden Town. However, we made sure that when we film in those places we don’t record other people, or try to go there when there aren’t that many people. The rest of the location were our own houses and back gardens.

 We used props such as:

* The doll heads (we had to damage them to make them relate to the theme).

* Black gloves and jumper with a hood (stalkers costume).

* Cigarettes and ashtray (also added some red paint to the ashtray to help establish the genre).

* Tools that we found in the shed.

* Laptop and phone (the facebook scene)

* Matches

* Pictures

*Candles

*Notebook and a pen