Title Sequence

Strengths:

• conforms to the general horror/thriller conventions.
• includes titles in the right order and that are matched with the visuals.
• the soundtrack matches the visuals, for instance a change in scene, matches with a different tempo, dynamic or instrument.
• a good variety of camera angles, movement and distances.
• the antagonist shows conventional forms of horror, using a knife as the murder weapon
• encoded values are presented clearly and the preferred reading is understood
• lighting in our production links back to our secondry research - low key lighting.

Weaknesses:

• some people thought it was hard to understand because there was two storylines going on at once. One was the protagonist in the house, and the other was the male partner in the garden shed.
• mid point through the title sequence, it seems the clip finishes, but then starts back up again and continues with the storyline misleading the audience.
• the footage has a grainy look to it as we shot at night, and this makes the quality of the film decrease.

Things we could have improved:

• we could have shot in the day and just toned down our final production, so the quality of the video would have been better.
• the sound could have been looked into a bit more, because we did not use much diegetic sound, which sometimes enhances the genre of horror, as footsteps and doors creaking traditionally convey horror.
• we could have improved the storyline as it was very basic and what you would expext of the genre. We could have been more experimental and ambitious when thinking of the plot.