Analysing a Post Student Video

P1-05 Thriller Project - Suspect

A steady shot is used throughout the whole clip to a level three standard. The camera is also very steady whilst on a  zoom shot and also when the camera tracks. This makes the opening scene look professional, however as its a thriller they could of shook the camera to give a distorted view, and make it more mysterious. 

At the begging of the opening scene the shot is framed very well, by including branches from a willow tree to overfill the frame, and this makes it a good, mysterious opening as you can only just see the victim through the branches.
However the framing at 0:35 needs to to exclude the white object that fills up a third of the frame, it does make it a little distorted but it doesn't look very professional. 

There is a good range of shot distances at appropriate times. There is uses of close shots,medium shots, and long shots, for example when the victim is being followed there is a good long shot across a large green/park of both characters within the shot.

  The mise-en-scene is mostly good in the opening scene. The bad person in the clip is wearing dark,black clothing this is normally the stereotypical colours a murderer/bad person is assigned to. However the lighting isn't to good, it's supposed to be a thriller, which are supposed to be mysterious. And the light set doesn't make it this, it would of been better if the could of made it darker, either using software on a computer or if they shot it at a later time in the day.

A key prop used is the knife in the victims hand, which is introduced to the audience with a zoomed shot, giving us a close up on the object. This is a key shot because this tells the audience there will most probably be a death, but it also describes the character showing he is weak, but also dangerous.