Our short film is about a young woman who when one night stays late at work to finish her work, finds herself trapped there, and fearful of being followed by someone. But actually it turns out that she knows the person who's following her from her teenage years. The two were best friends, always with each other, as if they were meant to be friends all their lives, until the friend gets the wrong impression and proposes to her. But as she declines, it sends the young teenager into a state of pshycological meltdown, and in later years resorts to murder, leading to his last victim.

The genre for our film is a pshycological thriller. I the sequence we made sure that you never saw the stalker, making the audience wonder who he is and when he appears, try to figure it out who he is. The reason we chose to use this type of genre was because it lets the audience try and figure out whats going on for themselves, rather than be told like with other film genres.

Our genre influenced our decisions among the group in different ways. One way in which it affected us was that we needed to change types of shots. I decided to use some first person shots and not to show the stalkers face to add suspense. A shot where this occurs in my film is near the end, at this point in the office I wanted to create a tense mood and make the audience feel uneasy. I think this works well because the shots link well together and with the performance of Sheridan as the woman, she justifies the mood of the shot sets the genre.

In the production of our short extract we were all given specific roles to add different ideas and techniques to the project. My role in the group initially was as cinematographer/cameraman. What I brought to the project was the ability to get us a good location and some unique shots. These were shots like the mirror shot at the beginning of the extract, this shot I thought of. The effect this shot has is it maks the viewer think more and makes them confused. The development of the narrative through my micro element was in the way of me being able to attract the audience in with a unique location, and the range of first person shots which shows the stalkers view without showing too much of him.

Like other people, we ourselves had our problems even some of them threatening to ruin the project. For example when we first shot, we didn't manage to get everyone together because of individual problems, but as we explained the situation we were able to film again. When we shot for the first time it all went well but when we went to upload I thought we needed to go back to re-shoot some pieces as it was not telling the narrative properly and lacked something.

When we re-shot, I decided that we needed to add more variations of shots, especially close ups. One complication occurred when Sheridan accidentally forget her second blouse, this added to a bit of a continuity error. Despite of this, the end product turned out well and you are not able to notice, and even if you do notice, it makes the viewer think why it is missing.

As we were working in groups we needed to converse ideas together to help create our film. In our group I worked alongside Sheridan to create the plot to our sequence. At first we were thinking about having the last scene on the rooftop, ending in one of their deaths. Although this was our main idea we had to change it, as when it came to filming we ran out of time, and when we filmed the second time it was a different time of day, adding to yet another continuity error.

After feedback from the other groups they commented saying that good points of our film was that the shots flowed well, and that we had a good use of props and costumes. These were essential to create the mood, and they succeeded to create the genre. Although we had good points we also had bad ones, they compiled of the diagetic sound being too quiet, and a barely noticeable jump cut..