Blackborow, Still Analysis

1. This shot shows a woman entering a lit room with a gun. It shows the gun in the foreground which has been lit up by the stream of light coming through the slightly opened door. The characters eyes are also slightly lit up by the light which shows her to be looking at something on the other side of the door. Howevere we can only just see her face which leaves an echo of mystery around the character. This film could be seen as a thriller film becasue of the mystery behind the character, we are immediately asking questions about the character, Why she has a gun? Who is she going to kill? Which all add excitement and thrill to the film narrative.

2. To achieve the effect of the stream of light we had the paglight on the other side of the door. We then turned all lights out in the room of the photograph. The door was then slightly opened to allow a flow of light into the room and onto the characters face and weapon. We set up the camera on a tri-pod however this was not the angle we were aiming for even when it was fully extended. In order to raise te angle up we placed the tri-pod on top of a edesk chair which alloed us to get the camera to the height of the characters shoulder.

3. Our shot is succesful because the light works well to highlight the gun as a main object in the still with a dark effect to make the shot scarier. The actor also made the shot work well as they were looking at a fixed object on the other side of the door, and we can see this due to the light being on her pupils.

4. In hindsight i think that we would have found a door that was not set in the wall but one that was flush with the line of the wall. This would have allowed for a better angle on the shot and we would have been able to see better what the character was doing, from the shot it is not immediately clear that she is opening a door.