From our first draft of the film, we learnt from audience feedback that there were hardly any story elements what so ever. The audience had no idea what was happening, as all they saw was someone walking somewhere. To fix this we had to add features that would give the audience the idea that this character is going somewhere. We added suggestive newspaper titles, we added a map with the character marking a destination, and we added a mysterious shot using a prop, and this shot connotes "who is he going for next?".
Once this was done, we went to go and get some more feedback, and this is what we have so far on facebook..
(Ignore the bit where it says "the descriptions you should leave them up..." - its referring to YouTube connotations)
So, adding these storyline elements into the opening resulted in better audience reaction.
In our preliminary task, we had to use 3 mandatory rules: 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot. At first, we thought that we accomplished these 3 rules. However, this was not the case and we had to do it again, due to lack of all three rules...
So, we done it again, this time using all 3 rules...
.Match on action; where we took a shot of me going into the door, and another shot of me entering the room...
.180 Degree rule; this time we didn't cross the 180 degree line, so, we passed that...
.Shot/Reverse Shot; when my friend asked me a question, the camera would focus on him, then when I said my answer, the camera would cut onto me.
