Evaluating Past Students Work

To get a good understanding of how to make our thriller sequence, we were told to look at and evaluate previous students 2 minute clips. We were given a marking critera that our thriller piece has to live up to. We have to evaluate what effect there 2 minute clip had on the audience.
I looked at a piece by group Q1-11 called 'Blackout'. in my opinion by looking at the mark scheme, this piece wouldnt have recieved high mark because it did have much effect on me as the audience.
There was no music played or any sound at all going on while the 2 minute clip was playing. This might have been because the group had posted it wrong, or it was actually ment to be like that. If it was intentional that they was no sound, it wasnt every effective or good because i had no effect on me and i didnt understand what was going on in the clip becasue there was no sound.
Close to the beginning there is a panning shot, this shows us where the clip is taking place and it familiarises us with the location. This is in most films no matter what the genre is, it is used to show the location. There are many close up shots of peoples faces used in this 2 minute clip. They would be used so the viewer can see the emotion of the character and feel for them when they are watching it. The were mind-shots that showed the location (the room) that the clip takes place in, this has been done to show what the beginning location is at and where the 'action' takes place.