Evaluation 1

I compared mine to insidious and have seen some differences in the sound. Their music plays through the whole opening whereas mine plays at the start and at the end of the opening. My music has different time frames of when the volume changes because I wanted to make it seem like you were hearing when he hears instead of what he sees. Insidious on the other hand, look at furniture and the music is at the same volume the whole time. The camera in Insidious moves a lot more then mine mostly because they have a way of making the camera movement flow however, I never needed to move the camera much because they wasn't any real much of a build up that would make moving the camera necessary although if I could I would of liked having to make the over the shoulder shot smoother but since I don't have the right equipment to do it I had to improvise and tried to not shake the camera. Panning the camera was also quite hard, there is a way of doing it without a good tripod but I have not tested it out to see if it works. Using only my hands and the tripod to move the camera around made some shots quite questionable in terms of quality for example,  (1:24) When Ben was in the chair I thought about resting the camera on the side of the chair as he moves to show the struggle he is in however, the outcome was different from what I wanted it to be. The same can be side for the camera because when filming at night the camera has a hard time focusing and due to my lack of knowledge of cameras I have no idea how to change that which is why I tried to move the camera as little as possible to avoid having to a million retakes.

The voice acting was not the best which is a little bit disappointing but since I have limited resources I had to make do with my friends help. There is little emotion behind his voice making you feel less attached to the character however, his movement wasn't bad, at the start when he was walking I normally see people walk like the nutcracker but he just walked like he would normally which gives the idea of realism. The difference in acting in Insidious is that one actor is standing still whereas the other is sleeping which makes it hard to judge but from watching lot's of different film openings I can make the assumption that he could of been better if we had the time. The lighting of the opening is off in some places but one part got me which is at (1:20) because the lighting doesn't make any sense when it turns from light to dim but I did this because there was too much grain in the scene, I tried to get rid of it in after effects but all it did was blur some of the film which didn't look nice. The only way I could get it to my standards would be to buy the plus in that does it in better quality but again I had limited funds.

The background sound in mine consists of wind and the rustle of the trees, it helps fit with the atmosphere deceiving the viewer into thinking that it's all nice only to be tricked. The sound in insidious is to build tension to freak out the audience which can play tricks on the mind because they think that something might jump out at them any moment (nothing does). Although the wind and rustle are not constant it still provides a good level of suspense in it's self making the audience question why it's so calm for a horror movie. The same can be said for the ending of the opening of insidious as the camera zooms into the man's face, he's just standing there smiling not knowing what he might do which causes discomfort.