The filmmaker successfully created a short horror film that engages its target teenage and young adult audience. The film introduces horror through footage of a character finding a phone at night and running from a chasing monster. While some footage is unfocused or dark, the filmmaker was pleased with scenes using different shots. Sound quality in some scenes was also an issue. Overall, the filmmaker learned about their strengths in planning and ideas but weaknesses in filming and editing through making the short film.

1. Evaluation
I have successfully created a short film. It successfully engages with my target
audience. My movie achieves it by including footage that is taken at night-time and
a monster that is chasing the characters. The biggest part of the movie is the
beginning scene where Eren finds the phone one the floor and runs away from the
monster. This scene is very crucial as it introduces the idea of horror to the
audiences from the first seconds of the movie.
The horror genre isn’t anything new but with a little bit of creativity I believe
that I have created something that is unique and will be liked by teenagers and
young adults. Short of the Week will also be interested in including my movie on
their website.
The overall quality isn’t the best. Some of the footage is not in focus and some of
the footage is not very visible as they were taken at night-time. I am pleased with
some scenes where I was able to use more than 1 shot to give a better view of the
action for the viewer such as using close ups where I can. I tried to use different
camera shots such as medium shot, long shot, close ups and etc.
Some of the scenes do not have a very good sound quality. I had to use music in
certain scenes to make sure that I didn’t have annoying background noise.
Another problem I had with my movie is that the length is longer that I suspected
it to be, the rough cut is 10 minutes long whereas the actual movie is 7 and a half
minutes so I will have to crop some scenes.
The dark clothing of my actors shows the audience that the movie has a dark tone
and it suggest the idea of danger and horror.
My biggest strength is the fact that I have a good series of shots that give out the
idea of horror and danger. My biggest weakness is the quality of the footage. One
way I could improve the movie is by having better quality footage.
Throughout the whole process of movie making I have found more about my
strengths and weaknesses in movie making. I realised that I am good at planning
and pitching ideas, but I found out that filming and editing aren’t my greatest
skills. But I learned about how detailed a real movie can be to make and to carry
out and I learned about the potential dangers and hazards that need to be
considered when filming a movie.