Still Shot Evaluation

1/ -This shot is of a young female teenager, as if she is hiding from something behind the brick wall. It is a medium close up shot with the girl is looking up into the right corner into the screen, the fear visible on her face. She's looking into the distance at something mysterious, looking for someone or thing. The close up shot is used to portray the expression on her face, making the still more intense, as she fears the unknown to her and the viewer. We can see from her face that she is hiding, maybe from an attacker, which shows that this is clearly a horror or thriller still. Her hand on the wall shows how she is all alone with nothing else for support, and shows her vunerabilty. The dull colours and minimal lighting all give the sinister sense of horror, with the dull colours represting the lack of life apart from the girl, a sense of lonliness.
2/ -To achieve this still we first had to find a place dark enough for the lighting put in to stand out. The back of the great hall was suggested, which was a good idea as it was very dark with some props even for us to use, such as the brick wall. We set up the camera at her height, only just lower to have it at a slight low angle. We tried a few shots without the night mode with normal colours coming through into the picture, but found this image when we switch it on and saw the dark and light colour contrast. The actress stood next to the wall resting behind it and looking up, with her eyebrows raised to show how scared she was.
3/ -I think that the nightmode really made this picture more successful, with the bland colours mixed with the scene making a typical horror still. The expression on the actress' face help a lot with making the shot more effective, as it showed her as a frightened victim. The lighting was effective as it made her stand out, and showed nothing but darkness behind her.
4/ -If I were to do this shot again, I may pick an angle above the actress, in a way as if it were really prying on her and she were being watched by us, but was totally unaware of it. I think I would also go more close up, and get the actress to show more fear on her face to express the fear of the situation, a bit more of an extreme shot. Even with a more close up shot, i would still try and include some of the blackness behind the victim, to show how lonely she in. I would also have experimented with the nightmode earlier, and have taken a wider range of images to choose from.