MISSING

Evaluation of Thriller opening - Missing

Audience Feedback

Extra scene

After feedback of our opening, we thought that adding a final scene after the title would be good to help continue the opening and build back up the tension after the victim has been kidnapped. We have decided the scene is going to be the victims friend becoming aware that her best friend is missing and rushes out of her house to find her, making the audience wanting to keep on watching and see what happens to the victim and her friend. This has also changed our story board, as before it ended at the title "MISSING."

Filming Day 3 & 4

 

During our final days of filming we focused on the wood scenes towards the end, and re-filmed any other footage that we didn't think was good enough. We mainly used the shoulder mount for the DSLR camera as many shots we did was POV shots, for example we had a scene of the antagonist chasing the protagonist and to make it more dramatic we used a POV shot. Also, we had another POV shot on the final clip of the protagonist when the antagonist is behind her and puts a bag over her head to create a black screen where we planned to place the title.

Filming Day 2

The second day filming we re-filmed the footage that wasn't in focus from the first day because we didn't put the DSLR camera in "auto" so that it focuses automatically to avoid bad blurry shots. After re-filming we started filming in the woods, we used new equipment such as the shoulder mount to create shots that weren't as steady as using a tripod for point of view shots from the antagonist and protagonist. This helped create more realistic POV shots. We attempted to use the Go-Pro to film more shots from the point of view as the Go-Pro was directly on her head of the characters, but we were conscious about whether it may be hard to control how the shots look as you can't see a screen. Overall, the day was successful and at the end we planned for our next filming.

Shooting schedule 2