Peer assessment

After completing the first draft of my coursework I decided to get some reviews from people who have already done A2 media. A previous member of my school visited our media class and so I took the opportunity to ask him to look at my first draft and to give me a couple of things that I should do to improve.

Some of the things that Lewis said that worked well were:

• He thought that some of the pink colour filters worked well. Particularly in the second establishing shot. When I asked him to elaborate further he said that it helped to foreshadow the murder and death that was to come. He also said the by using pink it alluded to the blood that the first complete scene was filled with.
• The next thing he said that he liked was the handheld camera work. This is something that I've tried to implement subtlety into some bits of the trailer. It also shows that my research into the handheld camera work used in the paranormal activity series was paying diffidence.
• He said the editing was sharp and focused.
• Mise en scene- He liked the consistency of camera angles as well as the use of black and whites which he found profound and striking.
• One piece of constructive criticism was that although he liked the music he thought that I could sharpen some aspects of it.