Firstly, I was not very happy with my first shot, there was a lot of dead space, which takes the focus off of the main characters. Also, in our case, it also leads the audience to believe that our location of filming contrasted with that in our script, it disrupted the mise en scene. I would also have changed the colour of my titles because, as we can see below, the colour merged in with one of our actress's skirts, which made it slightly difficult to read.
On the other hand, I was very pleased with my match on action of the two girls walking through the door. The audience didn't realise and it created a seamless finish and hence lead to continuity editing.
Moreover, if I was to film this again, I would ensure that we said,"1,2,3 action," before every cut, just to ensure that we achieved a seamless finish, and didn't have any background noise, that could possibly take away from the professional finish of our mini brief.
At one point in our mini brief you can see a slight movement of the camera, which makes it seem as if the characters are moving, and again gives off an un-professional finish. This slight movement could disorientate the audience .
However, I was very happy with the over the shoulder shot achieved of the girl looking at who was calling her phone. In this shot you were able to see both girls reactions, as well as the name of the caller.
Through the choice in mise en scene we wanted it to become apparent that the girls were home alone, in a slightly dark, mysterious room. However, the mise en scene of our shots showed a light, bright room; there was also visible bags and blazers in the background, which took away from the spooky feel we were trying to achieve; and lessened the genre of our mini brief. If I was to do this again, I would take more recce's, at the same time I was planning to film, to ensure the perfect lighting and angle is achieved, to show power in the antagonist.
Also, the camera focus in this angle is not very good, the masked man is not the main focus, and really doesn't look that scary or intimidating at all. Moreover, the sunlight pouring through the windows doesn't really set the scene we were trying to achieve.
There was also a moment in our mini brief where we can hear the protagonists phone ringing, as we had to change the camera angle slightly, we could hence hear the change in ring tone between the shots. If I was to do this again, post-production I would edit the sound of the ringtone in, to give off a more professional finish.
In addition, if I was to complete this mini brief again, I would use a completely different shot here and frame it differently, as the main focus here is actually my legs, due to the angle chosen and the lighting. However, the main focus should be the expression on my phone talking to the unknown caller. However, saying this, I do like the fact that you can see the other characters expression in this shot.
Moving on from this, whilst in post-production, I decided to add footsteps of the masked killer walking up the stairs. However, after receiving feedback from friends and family, it became apparent to me that these footsteps were actually just confusing for the audience. Completing this mini brief again, I would re-think these foot steps and try to think of a better idea of how the masked man appears in the room, possible by just editing in the sound of a door slamming and then pan back to see the characters reactions.
Furthermore, we made the error of filming the masked killer from a high angle in one of our shots. The use of a high angle is to show power and dominance over the other person. The masked man, looks weak and powerless by the use of this shot. To correct this, I would simply film from a low angle to give the masked man power over the girls.
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