Practice Footage

This shot was for our previous plot of the homeless man witnessing a murder. We planned to use a rule of thirds of the homeless man, the wooden planks and the murderer. However, due to poor lighting, we were unable to clearly show each individual section. The murderer could not be seen in the background and therefore would be confusing for our audience.

The solution we took was to remove the witness plot and instead have the homeless man murdered in order to make our Thriller opening more easy to follow.

Similarly, we had problems with lighting in this clip. We used other source of lighting to create a focus on the murderer's face however this was only effective when she was near the camera, therefore we decided this clip would not be a good one to use in order to make our opening clear enough.

This shot was an inter-textual reference to Heavenly Creatures and we felt a close-up was required to clearly show the weapon that will be used to murder the homeless man. We were happy with this shot and therefore will use it in our final cut.

We used this shot to mimic the previous shot of the homeless man walking up those stairs in order to show our audience that they are now in the same place, implying that he is the next victim. I particularly liked the tilt shot at the end which connotes psychotic tendencies by the camera not staying straight. It suggests that she is not normal which visually presents her as threatening, along with the weapon in her hand.