During the filming and editing process, it was important to ask ourselves: "As an audience member, how would we feel if we saw this film for the first time?" Throughout the film, we wanted our thriller to have a very ghostly feel to it from the start. The slow fade in to a dark street coincidenting with the classical piano music may seem calm to some but also very restless in the persepective of an audience member. We continued this theme with the opening credits of everyone who was invloved in our thriller. The white text fades in just as the girl the camera is following walks past the area. We felt that this would have been easier for the audience to read who is involved with the film and add to the spooky affect we wanted to achieve. The girl's shadow when she is walking down the road was created via our lighting and was something we were very proud of filming because her shadow allways grows as she moves.
When the lights of a parked car turn on as she walks in front of it, we wanted the audience to feel as though she is surrounded. The same idea is used when we hear the car horn. During the editing process of this scene, we had a lot of problems getting the timing of the shots and consistancy of the horn noises to coordinate perfectly. I now feel that the problem was solved for the final film. The credits then carry on with the piano music in the same style as the opening clips.
The scene with the knife and potatoes in the kitchen is an example of an idea with adapted to our thriller film from another. Sharp blades and food is something that I remember seeing in the opening sequence of 'American Psycho". This worked well because it showed something that can be seen as an item of threat and danger in a less harmful context. As the girl leaves the room, the pictures cross cuts from a brighter, peaceful room to a darker, more hostile environment. The use of colours in this form is a convention taken from many thrillers I have watched. The sound effects in this scene, most notably the heavy breathing from the man witnessing the film from a window, are used to continue the idea of the girl being inferior compared with her surroundings. Also, I think that as the camera shakes, it adds a personification element to the character witnessing her.
The black dressed figures appearing where light is shining helps to portray an idea of there being no escape for anyone in her situation, particularly when one is standing outside and the other man appearing from the door behind her. The screaming being used in coordination with the death metal music projects a climax from what has gradually been built up during the opening sequence.
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