Moving onto the advanced portfolio - Evaluation of thriller opening.

Assessment Criteria	What went well	What did not go quite so well
Controlled use of the camera	Most of the shots are filmed using a tripod and the shots were handheld was necessary, following the protagonist walking down the street and when a using a tripod was physically impossible due to lack of space, are of sufficient quality. Some camerawork such as the pan up the stairs in the opening scene are smooth and clean without any camera-shake.	There are some shots were the camera is shakey when it does not need to be (tripod could’ve been used) for example, the first shot is shakey when it didn't need to be as a tripod could've been used. As well as this, the canted shot used as the protagonist walks up to the door in the flashback is really wobbly. We should've used a tripod or canted the shot in the editing stage.
Attention to framing	Most shots are framed well with little negative space dominating the frame. When the victim opens the door to the protagonist in the scene in which the victim is killed, there is good use of framing to show to audience behind the wall and the victim opening the door in the same shot. We decided that we did not want to show the protagonists face throughout the film to create an enigma and I believe we executed it to a high standard while keeping the framing at a good quality.	I believe all the shots were well framed and to my knowledge the actor never fell in and out of frame. However, there are some shots like the tracking shot of the protagonist walking with the bat where we could of cleaned up the amount of negative space and blurred the background to focus the viewer on the main character, but due to lack of time management we overlooked such issues.
Variety of shot sizes	There are a wide variety of different shot sizes and angles throughout the opening and they have been applied in the correct way.	There were scenes in which shot size was an issue, for example, the first scene where he enters his house and sits down is not very well framed and the shot sizes are not to the standard which we would've liked.
Close attention to mise en scene	We worked hard on the mise en scene trying to keep the continuity smooth as failure to do so can create big errors and can potentially disconnect the viewing experience from the audience. The scene in which the protagonist pins the picture of the hand to the board is a very powerful shot and together with the slow backwards pan it came off very well.	In the first scene, there is a lava lamp on the table next to where he is sitting, this is an example of bad miss en scene as it does not work with the atmosphere we were trying to create. As well as this there was an issue that the last scene as the camera zooms out from the hands on the board, there is not enough pictures of hands for the shot to create the emotion which we wanted to provoke in that scene.
Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer	The continuity of the opening is very smooth, with little errors, and is easy to follow the narrative. There are good uses of match on action in the first scene as the protagonist enters the room and sits down and also throughout the killing scene when the protoagonist is at the door and the victim is inside the house.	The only issue i think would've confused the viewer throughout the film would've been the flashback which was not made apparent other than by the exposure spikes and by using the picture as a bridge in and out of the flashback. We could've improved this by showing the protagonist taking a picture of the hand, to show that he was the one who took it.
Making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions, captions and other effects	There is a wide variety of transitions and an interesting but not excellent use of effects in the film, for example; the first scene where the protagonist enters the house, the transition as he walks into the camera came off very well and the use of an exposure flash to show an ellipsis worked well and was easy to understand.	The editing i thought was to a high standard, however there was a lack of diversity when it came to specific effects and transitions. For example, there are only cuts throughout the entire film and when the flashback begins and ends, the exposure spike is not very clean and it would've benefited the film if we had concentrated more on these effects.
Recording and editing sound with images appropriately.	The sound, where there is some, is well composed and the non-diegetic sound complements the film well when it comes in after the first ellipsis.	The issue with sound in our film would primarily be the non-diegetic soundtrack used during the killing scene as it was very loud and smothered the diegetic sound, there may also be copyright issues with the track used.