Evaluation of Pilot

The first thing we realised from having filmed the pilot was that it was considerably too short to be able to have any impact whatsoever and we were going to need to add things to lengthen it. We did not want to make the concept of the opening any more complex because we wanted it quite simple to get the audience interested but not give everything away. We therefore thought about how we could use similar scenes but maybe prolong the time. This may even help to create effects.

We could:

• Add some scenes with police chatting and preparing for the raid. This will incidentally help to draw some focus to the police as well as to the criminals.
• We could add slow motion to some of the scenes (e.g. when the police sneak up to the container) 
• We could take a wider variety of shots (e.g. close-ups of drugs, wide shot of police car) 

Another issue is that for the pilot we had underestimated the importance of the costume to give us the right vision of the police. We did not think it would matter as much as it did, and the pilot ended up looking a lot more amateurish than we thought it might. This was like a wake up call to tell us that we were going to need to pay particular attention to mise-en-scene. We would need much more effective costumes and we would definitely need to be careful about using appropriate props. On the subject of mise-en-scene, after looking at the pilot I realised that the lighting made the video look very amateurish which is very far from what we want in the thriller.