Construction: peer-assessment

By analyzing Mathuras rough cut it helps me improve mine, by inspiring me with ideas. For example, the way in which sound was used, was very effective in creating tension. It really grasped the audience's attention by making them feel emotions, such as fear and curiosity, which effectively made the audience want to carry on watching. In the opening scene, the music is quite deep and intense, therefore it created suspense. Furthermore, the groups use of lighting was very good. They used the dolly very well, for example, when the character is on the floor, you can see her facial expressions very vividly, as the lighting brings attention to the female characters face. This engages the audience and they are made to feel sympathetic towards the character because she looks as though shes been hurt by someone. One reason for this suggestion is because the light clearly shows the blood on her face. However, if there was no light on that character the audience would not feel connected to her and understand her importance. Furthermore, one thing she could improve on it adding more credits, if they included more credits it would makes the movie more seem more real. Also, one thing I would recommend them to do to improve is, the costume. The character costume does not signify the characters personality and establish the character. Therefore, the audience are not as attached to the character. If the character costume consisted her wearing dark colors it can signify death, which promotes the characters past as in her past there is a lot of death involved. Moreover, Mathura's thriller opening introduces "mood". For example, at the beginning of the thriller movie, the audience are sympathetic towards the protagonist, laying on the floor, however, the mood changes as she is suddenly reminded with a flash back. At this point the tension is building up and the audience are engaged. However, the mood then suddenly changes when the female character identifies a body on the floor. The atmosphere becomes very tensed and at this point the audience are urgent to know why that body is there. Therefore, have a lot of questions that needs to be answered. The opening also introduces the narrative, for example, it illustrates there is a girl, that wakes up in a strange room, who remembers only a bit of her past. The female character then sees loads of pictures on the wall, her hands reaches on image and by mistakes she drops it onto the floor, just then she is shocked by what she sees. The body on the floor is the exact same girl that she saw in the picture she dropped. Through the use of camera, body language, lighting, editing, effects and facial expression of the characters, the narrative is told. The effects of the titles are consistent which is also a positive thing, because it doesn't distract the audience attention from the main focus point. Furthermore, there are loads of way in which enigma is established for example, when the dead body is lying on the floor automatically the audience start to raise questions in there head; "Why is that body there?", and "who killed her?". This makes the audience want to find out the missing pieces of the puzzle. Overall, I think that there video was very good especially due to the sound.