Preliminary Task Evaluation

Our preliminary task was to create a short scene where one person had to enter a room, cross it and sit down. The then had to exchange at least 4 lines of dialogue before the scene ends. My group and I of Ashleigh and Max, chose to create this scene is the genre of horror so we used different camera angles and dark lighting in our shots to give each clip a "spooky" effect.

 

We used a handheld shot at the beginning of our piece because we wanted it to seem like person A was running from someone who was chasing them, they ran down the hallway and into a room where we used a match-on-action shot to make it flow nicely to the next clip. When person A crosses the room to person B it was filmed from under the table to further enhance the theme of horror. The majority of our shots were filmed from under a table to give the impression that the characters are hiding from someone, these are also point of view shots and shot reverse shots when the two characters are talking.

 

Before the third person comes into the room, we chose to create a loud banging sound to increase the intensity and the fear in the scene. When this sound is made, the camera is quickly whipped round to face the door to show that the character that was chasing person A at the beginning is now here and the audience is left in suspense as they don't know what is going to happen to the two characters.

 

When it came to editing our piece, we chose to add music over the top. this is because we though it added to the fear of the piece as the music starts off quite intense when person A is running. This music calms down slightly throughout the piece to give the illusion of calm, and so the dialogue can be heard and also the erratic breathing of the characters and the loud banging noise.