Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression

from it to the full product?

Film Title

Film Title Analysis

• We feel that we have ended up with a good title name and one that fits in well with the psychological horror genre and the theme of someone or something resurrecting itself from the dead to haunt another. The inclusion of the ellipses at the end of the title also benefits our film title as it connotes at what is yet to happen and fills the audience with uncertainty and unease, leaving a striking thought in the back of their minds that they could well be next.

• As we researched the psychological horror genre and the different narratives that this genre entails, we have decided to have a look at the different shots used during the films. We have taken some of the simple shots used in the preliminary task and have shown how we have incorporated them into our final production, highlighting the comparison to represent how we have developed these shots and how far we have come since then.

Long Shot

Long Shot Analysis

• Here you can see the long shot from our final production and you can see that the theme of horror is clearly trying to be interpreted, while when we did the preliminary task there was no real angle that we were trying to achieve in terms of the conventions of the shot. In other words because it was just the preliminary task we took the most basic long shots possible.

Medium Shot

Medium Shot Analysis

• Here is our example of a medium shot from our final task. As you can see by the stage of our final production we had really grasped the skills required in taking medium shots, as in this one we wanted to give away very little emotion at all to maintain an overwhelming sense of mystery. We encapsulated that well here, showing our progression from the preliminary task.

Zooming Shot

Zooming Shot Analysis

• We used both zooming shots in our preliminary task and our final production. By the time of our final production however, we had mastered the ability to zoom in and out of a shot with great stability and effect. This helped in particular with this shot as we used the zoom to signify the importance of the door handles within our production.

Close Up

Close Up Analysis

• This final shot shows how confident and comfortable we were with the usage of close-ups as time had gone on because we just got so used to using them throughout our production and I think this is why we chose to use so many in our production. By this stage we had branched into using extreme close ups and this one of the water going down the plughole was inspired by the famous movie ‘Psycho’.

Conclusion

• Overall, we are now extremely confident with the using of the camera equipment, as well as the editing in order to represent the psychological horror. It has enabled us to create our film to its best possible standard of reality and conventionalism, to convey the horror genre to the best of our ability. The planning of the shots and the storyboarding beforehand really helped us to map out the techniques that we wanted to incorporate into our production and really added to how effectively we have managed to express the genre as a whole.