Reflective Analysis

Our intentions for our film Possessed was for it to be a thriller. We didn't want to scare the audience we wanted to make them feel tense and uneasy, hence the thriller genre. It is a 1 minute 40 second long film.

The opening shot is a forward tracking shot into the bathroom and then the camera pans from right to left to create an establishing shot. We used the bathroom to create a creepy feel to the scene as the bathroom is deserted except for the girl who is revealed by the camera panning left. We then did an extra close up shot on her face to focus on her eyes being closed, we did this to try and tell the audience that there is something not quite right and to hint that she is possessed. We then slowly zoomed out into a close up shot revealing her whole face to make it appear as though she was looking in the mirror and that she is almost acting as though she is dead by just staring at the mirror with no emotion.

A lot of the camera movements are slow to try and build up the tension and keep people on edge, We then cut to a mid close shot the allow the audience to see more of what is going on behind her and still make her appear to be looking into the mirror. Then there is the diegetic sound of the bathroom stalls banging closed to try and add to the the tension. We originally wanted to have the lights flickering at the same time to create low key lighting however there were not any light switches so we had to go without. We then moved to an over the shoulder shot to reveal her looking into the mirror so that you can see her face in the mirror, we did this so the audience would realise that she actually was looking in the "mirror" when the camera was in front of her face. We did a panning shot from left to right to reveal her face from a side angle, again to show her looking very dead whilst staring into the mirror.

We then did a mid-shot from outside of the bathroom to show the girl walking out of the bathroom, the camera then pans from left to right to follow the girls movements. This was also an establishing shot to reveal that the girl is in college and that there are other students around who are oblivious to the situation. Also no one looked at her which could hint to the audience that she actually is dead. We then did slow forward tracking to add suspense and tension to the scene, we did it so people would perhaps question where she was going. We then pushed the button for the automatic door to make it appear as if the girl had made it open without touching it. The camera then stops tracking her to tell the audience that something is going to happen. We also had the girl look left to hint that she could see something that the audience could not so the camera was actually concealing it from the angle it was at. We ended the clip with the girl being strangled, we cut the scene before it was actually finished to keep the audience tense as they do not know if the girl is dead or alive and what happened next.

We added non-diegetic music over the top of the film, the music has high pitch noises with deep background under tones to create suspense. I think the music went well with the film and the banging of the doors was in sync with the music so it worked quite well.