Our brief was to create a short three to five minutes sequence from ten to twenty shots. It had to be the part of the film. The genre we chose was thriller horror. This sequence fitted in the second part of todrov’s theory, which was the disequilibrium. This is where something always goes wrong. As in the group my responsibility was to edit the takes. From my last project I found out that I was good at camera work and editing. When I joined this group all micro aspects were already chosen so I thought I could help out with camera work so each time I offered some thing the group didn’t agree to what I had to say they said it doesn’t work with the idea of film. After that I took the job of editing but the group member, which was doing editing started to help out with camera work so I did the editing. It’s important to create meaning for the audience so it would relate to them and to create something which doesn’t have an obvious meaning but has a hidden meaning. This makes it more effective and more interesting for audience to watch.
This sequence is conventional of our genre because we used an isolated park, which is a convention of our genre. The location connotes normality
When the girl is waling home and we see a POV from the girl looking at her phone texting her mom after that I have faded the shot showing the time pass because from my audience feedback I found out that the same continuing doesn’t keep them interested in the film any more.
Through my editing I have created meaning for the spectator. In the sound, I have made the music louder and lower volume to create the climax in the sequence of the film. In the shot when we see the ghost the music goes really loud and fast beat to show her power which makes the audience feel as she is powerful and dominant.
It builds up suspense for the audience when they see the face of the ghost the first time the music goes very high and fast and rock like. From the audience feed back I found out that the location was good.
Toward the end I made the character walk very slow with creepy horror type of music to make the audience feel uncomfortable building up suspense tension and theater of the mind, making the audience think what is going to happen to the girl.
Yes we did met the brief which was to make a short two to three minute sequence and we made 2 min 21. I our group we decided to make a horror or a supernatural thriller and we made it successfully. In my opinion I think I fulfilled my roll very well and took the full responsibility of a good editor and completed the task and the responsibility which was given to me. I think I clearly represented the genre of a horror and a supernatural thriller with the creepy music and slow motion editing. The sequence we made was designed to fit in the second part of todorov’s theory which is the disequilibrium that is when every thing goes wrong and we clearly showed the audience what its about. I think that he only improvement, which I can think of, is the improvement of music as we used a rock music which does not go with any other music so we had to compromise with a different music and try to put them together. According to the audience feed back one of them said, “POV of view of the ghost is vey confusing” which could have been improved but because the camera work was not my responsibility so I could not change it.
