Feedback

I think by watching our idea back I can see clearly what the story line is showing as it is simple and basic, you understand the characters situation straight away as soon as we are introduced to him. I believe that the test thriller we made is definitely in a genre of a thriller as it is tense and builds throughout the scene, giving the scene suspense and keeping the audience on edge. We will enhance this further in the real thriller as we will have added music and ambient sounds which creates even more tension.

I didn't think the pace worked at all, it needs to be faster and include more shots to build suspense. By having more shots it gives us a bigger variety to choose from when editing the thriller. I feel like the pace of the thriller should start off slower as the character is waking up and a slower pace will mirror this. Then as the thriller continues and pace of shots increase and become much more frantic.

The camera angles and movements could definitely be developed by using different shots and much more interesting angles. Our group had an idea that we should have a straight angle on the door when it opens to the police.

If we look back on the test shoot I realised for this thriller to be effective we need sound for the characters to react properly and build tension throughout the scene. However we will need to prerecord some of the sounds as they will not be able to be done on site.

So overall I think we need to improve the number of shots of the scene, build as much tension as possible by adding soundtracks and sound effects, also working on pre-recorded sound and make sure we are organised with that before shooting the thriller.