Reviewing Test Footage (initial idea)

We were filming our initial thriller opening sequence idea which follows the same concept of our current thriller idea but has a completely different opening sequence. This one we filmed is about three sisters who show up in a dark tunnel and walk towards this injured man on the ground and eventually kill him. It is not that important to use the best props or use the correct actors in our test footage since it is just a simple clip to enable us to visualize what the scene opening sequence will kind of look like. For example, instead of actual knifes we used pens.


Also, the actors in the original will need to be relatively the same height, whereas in our test footage we just used the three girls in our room. We also used myself as the injured man as opposed to an actor who is skilled in what he is doing (acting as if he were in pain). We started with an establishing shot of the tunnel, followed by an extreme long shot of the three girls showing up. Then a close-up of their feet followed by a close up of their pens (used as knifes). Followed by a tracking shot from their backs followed by a low angle extreme long shot of them walking towards the camera. Then the camera moves from the central girl's lower back to over her shoulder, revealing the injured man. Then it's a long shot of them man in pain and last but not least a close up of the knife stabbing the
                                                                                    man in his heart.

As a conclusion this process of filming a test footage was not beneficial to our group. However, it was extremely useful for one thing. To establish a new idea because people in the group didn't think we as a group did a good job. If we had stuck to this idea, then yes camera work has worked well, as well as the location. But the idea on its own was not that great.

 The low angle extreme long shot when they were walking towards the camera made it look as if they were many times more intimidating as they walked closer and closer.

I feel like we had some problems when it came to creating tension because we got a really long time of just looking at the girls walking and walking and I believe that it was good for the first maybe twenty seconds. Then it gets a bit boring and repetitive. This was one of the reasons why we decided to change our opening sequence. Basically no tension was built in our opening sequence it was only maintained for a certain duration of time.