When you are making a film, you have to take every scene into account. One of the more important things we had to consider is the whether or not the Lighting was right to fit the atmosphere.
We wanted to a make a sense of isolation and paranoia when the protagonist is walking through the woods and when he is walking home listing to his iPod. The lighting had to be perfect in order to create this atmosphere as well was making it look like it was set in one night. Also the lighting was
Unfortunately, due to the limiting time of filming in the perfect light it was hard to have continuity of the lighting so there are some parts that will be brighter, later on when in reality it should be getting darker. We thought we could fix this by editing the lighting on Sony Vegas but we learnt when we did this, the lighting looked too unnatural and ruined the atmosphere all together.
Sound
Sound is another key point to consider when making a film is the music, whether it will be diegetically or non- diegetically.
We added a soundtrack that emphasises the feelings of the protagonist as well what we wanted the audience to feel. The Diegetic sounds was included to keep the verisimilitude of the scene, and to add tension with sounds such as the twig snapping, the protagonist’s heart beat and laboured breathing.
Emotional Journey
As our opening mainly focuses on the main protagonist Michael Thomas, We need the audience to emphasis with him. We did this by using close up Reaction shots throughout, showing his emotions to the audience at the moments of the scene we also made it so the audience knows as much as the character which increase the tension.
