Looking At Last Year's Work

The first shot in the video was just a simple long shot of the house. The whole house can be seen in the picture and also some of the sky and I think this was done to show that it's a dark night and it's raining which is typical in horror films.

The second shot is medium angle and a medium close up of the desk as you can't see the whole of the desk but you can see what's on top of it which is all that is needed to be shown. This shot shows a computer, a book and some empty coke cans and I think this symbolizes a teenagers desk as the coke cans are just laid about and it's untidy. This gives us an early impression of who's going to be in the film.

Another shot I thought was of some significance was the close up of the keyboard when the character is wacking the keyboard rather than just pressing it. This shows some distress and that things aren't normal.

There is a low angle shot of the character's foot hitting the floor as he gets out of bed. It happens quickly so I think it shows that he's panicking when getting out of bed because something's not right.

The next shot I thought was good was a high angle of the stairs and the character walking down it because it was a long shot and all of the stairs can be seen and you can see the character walking all the way from the top to the bottom and he walks down very slowly which shows that he's scared and it builds tension. Also, I think the fact that the stairs are filmed from a high angle, it makes the person look smaller which probably relates to how he's feeling.

There is also a shot which show the character reaching the bottom of the top set of stairs and walking around the corner. The angle is a long shot as you can see his whole body. I think this was done to show how he's moving which is slowly and uncertain; he is always holding his hand in front of his face as if there's something wrong and this gives off the horror feel again.

I also thought that the high angle close up of the back of the character's head was good because it gave the feeling that he was being followed.

I like the low angle view from the bottom of the stairs which shows the character looking down. The fact he's looking down gives the viewer the impression that there is something below and obviously he's worried about it. I also think this view was used to show the expression of fear on the person's face.

There is also an angle of the character walking down the stairs and it's level with the character but he walks down the stairs and out of the shot. Its a medium close up and I think it was used to give the feeling that there is someone down stairs looking up and waiting for him.

The last shot of the character waking up shows his eyes open in a medium close up so that you can also see the bed to acknowledge where he is but then it goes into a further out view which shows his arms and the movement they do to suggest he doesn't know what's happened.