Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task we decided to use a plot aspect for our opening as we felt this would keep the audiences interests. The genre we decided to base it on was mystery horror as we were able to create suspense and tension with the camera shots and dialogue. Also including the mystery aspect made the experience more fun. I enjoyed making the film and also putting the clips together in the editing process in the final stage.

We used many camera shots during the process such as a high angle shot, medium shot and over the shoulder shot, this gave us a range of different shots to tell our story. The high shot expresses that something's wrong as we feel we are looking down on the character making us emphasise with them, this then quickly cuts to a medium shot, the fast paced editing lets the audience know that something is not quite right. We used an over the shoulder shot during the characters dialogue, to give us a sense of realism and make the scene feel believable. The over the shoulder shots allowed us to capture certain expressions from the characters. All the different shots were put together during the editing process to create a sense of realism and give the scene a naturalistic flow.
The editing was a quick and fast pace cutting from character to character, creating discomfort and hinting to the audience that something was not right.

We used non diegetic sound to create a tense atmosphere, which gave the scene a bit of suspense. We also used diegetc sound of the character in which little dialogue was used to show the fear and horror in the characters. The scene finishes on "I think its him!", this statement sends shock through the audience and leave the audience asking many questions as to who is he? and why is he calling?, making them want to watch more