Maisie's Evaluation on Thriller

Evaluating your own Fou8ndation Portfolio Thriller Opening.

Assessment Criteria	What went well	What did not go quite so well
Shooting material appropriate to the task set	Appropriate to thriller genre; restricted narration (silhouette), low key lighting, acting was good (used production arts students)	Too dark in some shots so difficult to see image, needed better artificial lighting, some shots were too long which was wasn’t necessary
Controlled use of the camera	Limited handheld movement (POV, tracking shots), mainly shot with a tripod to keep it steady, post production filter used to give a better thriller atmosphere (desaturate), focus pull to show wavering consciousness	Title was shaky, could have used something to make it smoother (steadycam)
Attention to framing	Subject was almost always in the centre, if not something was filling the space (tried to limit the amount of empty space), some POV shots, camera goes behind lamppost to give a sense of her being watched (significant to genre)	Subject goes out of the middle of the frame so a tracking shot would have been better than a crab shot
Variety of shot sizes	Lots of close ups, long shots, medium shots, relate to the genre (close ups convey emotion, long shots to establish setting)	Possibly some wider shots to show more of the setting
Close attention to mise en scene	Appropriate clothing for female character, fitted her character profile, realistic setting, good use of props (put time and effort into making them look as realistic as possible)	Male character could have worn something that suited his character better, some parts filmed at college
Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer	Shows cross-cutting which establishes connection, dissolves showing time passing, ellipsis (researching), high frequency of cuts to give it more pace, good continuity	Could have cut down on some longer shots, loses pace towards the end due to drawn out shots (walking down the street)
Making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions, captions and other effects	Only used captions where necessary (beginning credits), appeared in the right places, looked professional, newspaper title had relevance to the story (well made, authentic)	The title of the film could have been shown better, wasn’t very obvious, filmed very quickly
Recording and editing sound with images appropriately	Appropriate dialogue, attention to detail/smaller sounds, created own Foleys (chair), dialogue helped the story and helped it make sense, non-diegetic music used was parallel	Sounds could have been louder, didn’t quite match the image, wasn’t very convincing, some ambient noise, some effects were overused, dialogue needed editing due to some mistakes during recording, possibly needed more music to convey emotion