After showing the clips to our peers and advisor, they all thought our whole concept and layout of the film opening was great. We tackled down the majority of what a horror thriller truly means to an audience. But there were certain issues they came across in the clips, and they noted that some things needed to be condensed and some scenes had recording issues. In this blog, I will discuss the things that need to be fixed for the film opening.
First Issue: In the introduction of the film opening, when the camera pans to the sign, “Welcome Back Dhost,” the scene was only captured for one second, and the scene became dark since the cameraman’s finger got in the way.
Inside the garage scene, the sign that says “Do Not Touch” is barely visible. So, for our next day of production, we will fix the issue of displaying the boards more clearly by writing them more clearly.
Second Issue: The scenes of us entering the car:
My friends thought the interaction between the protagonist and the antagonist, with the music playing, felt more unprofessional than what a horror thriller is supposed to be. They recommended that rather than displaying us in the car, we should have more camera angles of the car driving around the neighborhood to show the audience that the setting of the whole film opening is actually isolated and dark, which may lead into a thrilling threat. For the most part, we learned that there should be no music, and more quiet shots of the car just driving around to build up momentum of what the conflict or result will look like. Looking back at our script, we realized we used way too much dialogue, as expected, and this scene needs to be more silent and condensed so that it follows the script structure. This will be resolved by applying the proper feedback and restudy our older blogs on where we discussed on how a horror film opening usually utilizes to have less dialgoue and more focus on the setting's purpose of being isolated and dark.
Third Issue: Lighting Issues
There were some noticeable lighting issues that people pointed out, and our team realized that there were some instances where the lighting was ruining the continuity of the scenes. For example, when we show the wide scene of the garage being open, the lights automatically turn on, and we might have to figure out an alternative way to display the garage being open because we want the garage to stay dark throughout the duration.
Another part was when I was opening the box, we did not realize we cut from the scene of the lights being dark to the lights being randomly on, and when we were showing the bear being displaced, the camera was out of focus, and the whole scene became cluttered. So, we were recommended to restart the scene in our next production to resolve these issues.
Camera shot being out of focus:
Needed a better tracking shot to transition to the last scene
In the last scene, we completely cut off to the scene of the antagonist hitting me with the pebbles and randomly being placed in the backyard. I figured that this transition was perfectly fine, as we can add a cool transition effect that leads up to the scene of the body dropping down to the floor and then a POV shot being utilized to see the character getting killed. We were told that a tracking shot showing how the antagonist takes the body allows the audience to have more detail of who the antagonist is and allows more information to be processed about the backyard rather than just a limited scene of the character being killed.
From all of this feedback, we took everything into account to fix these issues because we want to achieve the best out of this horror thriller. I am glad we utilized this as a draft to learn our biggest strengths and weaknesses so that, when it comes to questioning ourselves as we discuss the struggles in our Creative Critical Reflection, we can include how this film process was a journey where we had to reshoot certain scenes to make them stand out more. Who knows, these reshoots may help us fix even more flaws than our feedback pointed out.
Most likely, we will meet up again next weekend on the 6th of March to finalize these reshoots and be set to go for the editing process.
Over here I am going to leave our rough draft that was critiqued by our peers:
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