Jordan Wardle evaluated his work on creating a trailer for a crime drama called FIB: New Haven with a team. Some scenes during filming didn't go as planned or didn't look good in the final product. Jordan would use different camera angles and close-ups if filming again to better convey key evidence and portray the murderer as sinister. Others who viewed the trailer felt the story, music, sound effects, and titles could be improved but praised the camerawork and editing.

1. Jordan Wardle Evaluation
Evaluation
The trailer I created along with a team was called FIB: New Haven. I believe the trailer
filming ok and the editing went well, although there were some things that didn’t go to plan.
The filming of the trailer went ok, it took a few attempts to do some scenes and some scenes
worked first time. The original idea for the first scene was the victim would be walking down
the street and then in 1st person be struck and dragged backwards. We did film this scene but
I believe it didn’t look good so I didn’t incorporate it into the trailer however the others did.
The original idea was to find a cufflink at the crime scene which as the logo of the casino that
the murderer Antonio De-Vito owns. We stood by this decision and had a cufflink being the
main piece of evidence of the trailer. this didn’t go amazing because from the extreme long
shot we used you couldn’t really see the cufflink. If I were to do this again I would have used
an extra close up to show the evidence so the audience
would know and see what it is more efficiently.
Talking about camera angles I would, if I were to do
the trailer again, use an array of different camera
angles. For example I would have used a canted shot to
show the murderer as a nasty and sick person who, by
using this shot, was the murderer.
This meets the expectations of the audience because it
has what a normal crime drama has, a murderer, a
crime scene, detectives/police, a victim and a witness.
We also have forensic scientists. This has all the parts
that a crime drama on television would have. The audience will be looking for the bad guy so
if I were to do the trailer again I would have used a canted shot so the audience would know
that the “bad guy” is sick and twisted.
Team contribution
The 5 people inmygroupwere me,Stan,Matt, Andrew andRory.The ideathat we came upwith
was to have the victimbe relatedtoone of the detectivestomake the programmore dramatic.
Havingthe relationshipbetweenthe detective andthe victimwouldincrease the personal attribute
therefore makingthe targetaudiencefeel more involvedinthe program. The audience canrelate
more to the detectivesbecausetheywillthinkof theirownrelatives.Mostcrime dramasdon’thave
a connectionto the audience howeverwe decidedwe needasellingpointwhichwasthis.
Rory wasthe main cameraman;he filmedmostof the scenesexceptforthe
forensicscene where he wasthe actor.In the editingIdecidedtouse a white
transactionwhich meansitfadesinfromthe colourwhite, toshow tranquillity
and freshnesswhich isuniversallyrepresentedbythe colourwhite.
Figure 1 shows a canted angle shot or a person.
Canted shots are used to show someone in a
negative way.

2. Jordan Wardle Evaluation
Review
Whenthe filmwasshowedtootherstheywrote on a table the strengthsandweaknessesof the
film.Here isthe table theywrote the strengthson. S= strenght
Story ss
CameraWork sss
Editing Ss
Music Ss
SoundEffects s
Special Effects
Titles S
Doesit looklike acrime drama? Ss
Theythenwere askedtowrite the weaknessesdownonanothertable below w=weakness
Story ww
CameraWork Ww
Editing
Music w
SoundEffects Ww
Special Effects Ww
Titles www
Doesit looklike acrime drama?
Overall youcan see thatmostpeople were impressedwiththe cameraworkandoverall editingof
the film. Theysaidtheylikedthe middle wereIquietenedthe musictomake themhearthe speech
and thenthe volume wentbacktothe original sounddecibal.