Audience Feedback 4: On Rough Cut 4

This is some audience feedback that we got from our Year 13 Media group on what they thought of our rough cut 4. We had told them in advance that there wasn't any non-diegetic sound on yet so they focused more on commenting on the shot variation, editing and idea rather than the music.

We thought it was very useful to hear what they thought since they came with quite good input to what they liked and what they disliked. We discovered that there wasn't much that they didn't like and therefore we knew that this rough cut 4 would be one of the last rough cuts that we would probably be doing before finalising our final cut.

Rough Cut 4 - Without Music

This is the 4th rough cut without any non-diegetic music. In this rough cut, you will be able to see how I have changed the length of some of the shots and the use of some special effects to create a bit more tension to our film opening. Ofcourse it is a horror genre movie and so it is usually hard to create tension, without the use of non-diegetic music.
However, the audience that we got audience feedback from, a year 13 class from our school, told us that they thought it had quite a lot of tension, despite the fact that there was no music yet.
This was already a very good sign that we had a good setting and shot variety.



Although, we did not get a lot of negative criticisms from our primary audience on what we could change, I decided to convert and modify some things before adding music to it.

Firstly, I added a special effect called "Bad TV" in Final Cut Pro. This made it look more creepy within the basement scene by signifying that it was all recorded on tape.

There were also shots during that video recording, of Casey Crane tied up to a chair, connoting that the killer probably films all of his victims and films how he kills them. 

I thought that this entire special effect would work well with the genre. Later on in my evaluation question, you will be able to read on how I was inspired for this special effect from the film "Poltergeist", which I analysed back in the beginning of the year to look into the conventions of the stereotypical horror genre.



Furthermore, Bronwen re-edited the bathroom scene, such as for example the shot of her (Casey) closing the door again after taking the nail polish. This was done, since our audience feedback from our own class had told us that there was a lack of continuity. Bronwen also decided to use other shots, with a better shot quality. In it's entirety, Bronwen managed to transform the bathroom scene into a scene with more continuity and flow. There is a post on Bronwen's blog, where she describes what she changed and why she changed it.

We did not change the church scene, after Jonathan had edited it the first time. We thought the shots were good and we were especially given praise for our close-ups of the matches.

During the final scene, which I edited, I was given a lot of feedback on how the shots should be shorter, but the scene should be longer to build up even more tension. I managed this, by creating a better shot variety, such as using shots that were taken behind the church of Bronwen walking. Moreover, I made the shots shorter of when the woman is walking up behind her so that the false scare would come more accross to the audience.

What I also did to create more tension, was to cross cut between the shaky footage point-of-view shot to the shot of the killer. Shot, reverse shot. At each reverse shot, I zoomed in a little bit on the footage and was able to get a close-up of the killer everytime using Final Cut Pro. This was useful since it denoted that he was moving closer and closer to his target. I was inspired to do this, after having seen and analysed the film "Friday the 13th", where there was shaky footage of the killer's point-of-view when he walked up the stairs. I thought it created a lot of tension. You will be able to see how I created all of this later on in a post that I am going to do on the final cut pro X tools and effects I used.

The next post, called Rough Cut 5 will explain exactly how I worked with sound and why I have chosen to put on the non-diegetic soundtrack that I did. 

Bridget Jones Baby (2016) - Teaser Trailer Analysis

Bridget Jones's Baby is going to be released simultaneously in the UK and the US at the same time. We can assume that the Gant Rule is not going to apply, because it it a British film with mostly British characters that is also set in Britain.

It was a very clever distribution move from the distributors of this movie, because there was a small teaser that was released the day before the actual trailer release, saying "the trailer debuts tomorrow".
This was meant to give the audience an insight of what is going to happen, but also something to look forward too. Moreover, everyone was aware that the trailer would come out, and so the amounts of how many people watched the trailer through the US Ellen Degeneres Show was enormous.



To analyse this teaser I am applying the theory called "Dennis McQuail's Uses and Gratifications Theory" from 1972.

As you can see the theory explains how the audience each analyse the text with different meanings. Dividing it up into 4 categories being Diversion/Escapism, Personal relationship, personal identity and surveillance.

Diversion/Escapism:

An audience might select this text because the comedy aspect gives the audience the opportunity to escape into the movie for an hour or two and just laugh of Bridget's clumsiness and love life.
Furthermore, the scene with the music festival clearly denotes that she is having a good time. It is denoted by her body language and facial expression. She is smiling and laughing out loud.

Moreover, the clothing that Bridget is wearing at the festival. There is escapism in her T-Shirt, since  it is very loose and the pattern on it suggest that it could come from a country like India, which let's the audience thoughts circulate around that as well. The colours connote that everything is nice and bright and that Bridget feels comfortable.

Personal relationship:

This teaser offers a certain talking point for people who have heard about it and seen it already. In terms of this teaser it is saying that the old Bridget is back, so an old friend is back. There is a talking point in how Bridget has changed, in terms of clothing and job. She is now wearing really tight dresses rather than loose clothing. Also, the music festival scene denotes that she is having fun and that she is feeling much more comfortable with herself. This is a talking point for the audience, because they see that the character has changed a bit, which can also be refreshing.

The franchising is also an important point to note, since the first movie came out in 2001.
Her old friends are still there, which created a lot of excitement within the audience because they still see the same characters, although Hugh Grant is not in it anymore.
There has been a 12 year gap in between the 2nd Bridget Jones movie and this 3rd one called "Bridget Jones Baby". Due to this, the audience also wants to know how she is looking and how she is feeling. Also, there was a major discussion when Renee Zellweger had changed her looks completely and didn't look like herself anymore. Due to this, the audience has been wanting to see that she is still her and still feeling well.


Personal Identity:

There are two main ways in which the female audience can identify and relate themselves to Bridget's character. First of all, the 15 second teaser manages to show that she is still as clumsy as in the first two movies. This also represents the slightly clumsy American.



The audience has also identified with the way that Bridget Jones is growing up and so has the audience. As mentioned above there is a 12 year gap and therefore the audience can identify with the fact of growing older.
Furthermore, she looks more serious and the audience might also have been able to personally identify themselves with the fact, that as you grow older the job gets more serious and frustrating.

Surveillance:

By watching this text the audience is being better informed on what is fashionable and what the character is like. The dress that she is wearing in the first show is probably from a fashionably designer.
One of the key psychological motivations could be to see what is fashionable and what a woman should wear.

Film Opening 7: Friday the 13th (1980)

Director: Sean S. Cunningham

Release Date: 9th of May 1980 (USA)

Actors: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan 

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Georgetown Productions Inc., Sean S. Cunningham Films  

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Budget: $550,000 (estimated)

Box Office Domestic:  $39,754,601



Right at the beginning of the film, we see a shot of a lake and a house and hear an audio bridge of people singing. At the same time, the title "Camp Crystal Lake 1958" appears on screen, which denotes the setting.

The audience is taken inside the house, where we see several people around a campfire singing and one playing the guitar. This establishes a state of equilibrium, where all is well and the narrative enigma. However, there is quickly a disruption of the equilibrium, which we notice with the sudden change of non-diegetic music and the shaky footage denoting somebody's point-of-view when walking into the lake house.

After the shaky footage, there is a crosscut back to the room, where the people are sitting around the bonfire. This connotes that something bad is about to happen, since it creates tension by crosscutting from the one creepy shot to the other one where there is a state of equilibrium. 

During the scene of the bonfire, we are introduced to a couple with the use of the rule of thirds. The first shot is of the girl with the guitar who looks over at someone with a smile.

There is then a boy who is a bit more in the left of the screen and after a while they are then both in the middle of the screen. This denotes that they are a couple and is confirmed when they kiss and hold hands.

The Rule of Thirds, is specifically often used in rom-coms, produced by Working Title, such as Love Actually.


The two go to the attic in a barn and start kissing eachother. The audience sees how the killer is then moving closer and closer to the two young people, by following his point-of-view from up the stairs with the use of shaky footage.



The boy is killed first and afterwards we see how the girl is trying to escape without any luck. At first, she doesn't even look scared when someone is coming up the stairs and she only starts saying something after her boyfriend is killed.
Furthermore, she also has blonde hair and the heavy kissing denotes that she is also sexually active. This is therefore a clear example of the stereotype of the scream queen, which is often used in horror movies. A scream queen, is also portrayed as dumb and therefore the one who gets killed first. In this scene, the girl did attept to escape, however she didn't really run but more moved a bit backward rather than running like a clever final girl would have done.
In my first evaluation question, I will be discussing how we challenged this stereotypical convention of the scream queen.

Film Opening 6: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Director: Marcus Nispel

Release Date: 17th of October 2003 (USA)

Actors: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew Bryniarski, Erica Leehrsen, Mike Vogel, Erik Balfour

Production Companies:  New Line Cinema, Focus Features, Platinum Dunes, Next Entertainment, Chainsaw Productions LLC

Genre: Horror

Budget: $9,200,000 (estimated)

Box Office Worldwide: $107,071,655


The movie begins with a very ominous and dark non-diegetic soundtrack, during the time that the idents are portrayed on screen. This non-diegetic music denotes the fact that the movie is a horror genre.

Followed by the idents, the movie starts out with a voice-over of a male voice who explains what the movie is going to be about. During the time, there is shown several clips in black and white of crime scenes. During several times that the male voice-over speaks about the different pieces of evidence the police had found, there is an audio bridge between what the audience sees on screen and what the male voice-over is saying.

“The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of 5 youths. It is all the more tragic in that they were young, but had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected, nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them, an idyllic summer afternoon became a nightmare. For over 30   years, the files collected dust in the cold-cases division of the Travis county police department. Over 1300 pieces of evidence were collected from the crime scene at the Hewitt residence. Yet none of the evidence was more compelling than the classified police footage of the crime-scene walk-through." 

When the male voice-over talks about the footage of the "crime-scene walk through", we see a pile of camera rolls and afterwards hear and see the entire walk through that was done by the police. 

The entire walk-through of the police officer connotes that none of the 5 young adults are going to survive and therefore again denoting the genre. After having seen this 3 minute introduction, we are taken back in time, where the 5 teenagers were still alive and we are following them throughout the movie. 

The audience is introduced to them by seeing a van with 5 teenagers in it. This denotes that these are our 5 main central portagonists. The one girl sitting in the front of the van is wearing a cow-boy hat, while singing to Sweet Home Alabama, which is a diegetic music that comes out of the radio. Furthemore, there are cornfields in the background.

The entire mise-en-scene of the cornfields, her costume with the cowboy hat and lastly also the diegetic sound of the song "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, connotes that the movie is set in Old Texas, Alabama. 

3rd Rough Cut of the Final Scene

After getting audience feedback on my 2nd Rough Cut, i re-edited the scene, by changing a lot of the sound, lighting and adding the small clip before where Bronwen is coming out of the church. It was my job in our group to edit this final scene, and make it have a lot of tension. This is in fact one of the most important scenes, since this is the ending where the mask is finally revealed and our final girl gets kidnapped. I changed the ambient sound by taking the ambient sound that wasn't too loud from one of the clips and putting it on the re-loop.
In terms of non-diegetic soundtrack, there isn't anyone on this cut yet, since I wanted to finish the editing of the scene before putting the soundtrack on there.
I am currently working together with one of my very good friends called, Max Genson, who is a really talented DJ. He has produced a lot of music himself and was able to help me for the soundtrack. Since, I am the one from our group who plays an instrument and sings outside of school, we decided that it would be a suitable task if I produced the soundtrack together with Max. He is also the one, who has produced the non-diegetic music that is in the first scene in the basement on rough cut 1.


Furthermore, I added the blue tint, when editing so that all the shots would look more dark and scary and that they would look the same way as the one in rough cut 2, where there is a natural blue lighting in the shot. This made there be a better continuity in the different shots and it also connoted the dark feeling and tension. 


I made some of the clips shorter as well, so that I would be able to add more tension to it as well once I get the non-diegetic soundtrack on, which I will be working on together with one of my friends, who is a working as a DJ. The 4th rough cut, will be up, once I have completed the music soundtrack.



Another thing I did was to zoom in on the shot of the killer and keep changing the shots so that it would cut from the point-of-view shot with the killer to the shot where the audience sees him entirely. I did this in order to create more tension and show the audience that he keeps coming closer and closer to kidnapping her.

According to my audience feedback, the zoom in did have the intentional effect. I was also advised to do a shot, reverse shot between the killer's point of view when he looks at Bronwen and when the audience sees him on screen. The shaky footage was done by us on purpose to denote that the killer is observing her. Also the shot, reverse shot allowed for there to be more tension created rather than it being one shot after the other. So I created a bit more shot variety.

About Time (2013) - Is this a typical Working Title Production?

About Time is a ROM-COM that was produced by Working Title and came out in 2013. The movie was produced with a budget of $12 million.

The main distributor in the UK  and other countries for this film, as you will be able to see in the table,  was Universal International Pictures. A few countries that made an exception for this distributor, were countries such as Bulgaria, Finland, Hong Kong and a few more. In the US the distributor was Universal.

In terms of marketing, the poster didn't change in any country like it did for Bridget Jones. However, Rachel McAdams is the one dominating this poster, because she is the actor of the two who is the most famous. Another name that really stands out is Richard Curtis and his works such as Four Weddings and a Funeral.
 

What is interesting to note, when analyzing most Working Title films is that the Gant Rule will not apply to most of the films such as Bridget Jones Diary, Wild Child, Love Actually and many more. This film, About Time, does not apply to the Gant Rule either.

There is one specific reason for this, which is that although these movies are produced by an American Company, they still have a lot of British actors in them, the movies are set in Britain and the accent is British as well. Using, About Time, as an example, the central protagonist has red hair and a British accent and is portrayed as the stereotypical British person. The film is set on the countryside in Britain, and the entire mise-en-scene of the house is also very British. The mise-en-scene within the house is set up with old furniture and flower patterned curtains.

In The US alone, About Time made over $15 million and was a great success. Worldwide the movie made over $87 million. 

About Time can be considered to be a typical Working Title ROM-COM. It has all the same features in there as all the other Working Title films. First of all, it is set in Britain and the main actors are British. Our central protagonist, Tim, is the very stereotypical British person. He has red hair, freckles, dresses with his shirt in his pants all the time and also has a British accent. Furthermore, the film is set on the countryside in a very big house in England. We can see the usual old furniture, and the big flower patterned curtains. In Bridget Jones Diary, the mise-en-scene of the house of her parents is exactly the same with old furniture and decorations.

The movie was screened in these 52 different countries. It had global success, especially in countries such as South Korea, Australia and of course the United Kingdom. There is no specific reason, why it had more success in South Korea rather than in the United Kingdom. However, these numbers are a great example for the success of these type of international Working Title Films. 

Country (click to view weekend breakdown)	Dist.	Release Date	Opening Weekend	% of Total	Total Gross / As Of
FOREIGN TOTAL	-	9/5/13	$2,748,410	3.8%	$71,777,528	2/16/14
Argentina	UPI	11/7/13	$169,575	30.1%	$563,825	2/2/14
Australia	UPI	10/10/13	$327,892	4.3%	$7,636,052	12/15/13
Austria	UIP	10/18/13	$79,272	26.7%	$297,175	11/17/13
Belgium	UPI	11/6/13	$241,957	38.4%	$630,898	12/8/13
Bolivia	UIP	12/5/13	$7,992	44%	$18,159	12/15/13
Brazil	UPI	12/6/13	$14,876	1.8%	$835,606	3/16/14
Bulgaria	Forum Films	10/18/13	$14,673	18.9%	$77,684	11/24/13
Chile	UPI	11/21/13	$39,123	37%	$105,772	12/29/13
Colombia	UIP	10/25/13	$65,255	50.8%	$128,523	12/8/13
Croatia	UIP	12/5/13	$16,585	24%	$69,025	1/12/14
Czech Republic	CinemArt	11/7/13	$103,406	26.6%	$389,391	1/5/14
East Africa	UIP	11/1/13	$992	17.1%	$5,804	11/24/13
Ecuador	UIP	2/14/14	$50,435	38.5%	$130,903	3/9/14
Egypt	UIP	10/9/13	$5,865	15.2%	$38,621	12/15/13
Finland	Finnkino	10/4/13	$63,423	28%	$226,512	11/3/13
France	UPI	11/6/13	$790,411	56.8%	$1,391,178	11/17/13
Germany	UPI	10/17/13	$580,660	31.4%	$1,850,124	11/10/13
Greece	UIP	10/17/13	$49,213	46.9%	$105,032	10/27/13
Hong Kong	EDKO	10/3/13	$219,152	24.2%	$907,079	12/1/13
Hungary	UIP	10/17/13	$100,656	26.1%	$385,991	11/10/13
Iceland	UIP	10/4/13	$7,349	21.6%	$34,093	11/3/13
India	UPI	10/11/13	$62,723	62%	$101,181	10/27/13
Israel	UIP	10/17/13	-	-	$212,923	11/24/13
Italy	UIP	11/7/13	$461,509	60.4%	$764,488	11/17/13
Japan	-	9/27/14	-	-	$1,667,751	10/26/14
Lebanon	UIP	10/10/13	$31,777	33%	$96,260	11/3/13
Malaysia	UIP	9/26/13	$57,451	28.1%	$204,102	10/27/13
Mexico	UPI	12/6/13	$236,487	11.7%	$2,026,175	2/16/14
Netherlands	UPI	10/10/13	$260,392	20.8%	$1,251,809	11/17/13
New Zealand	UIP	10/24/13	$184,032	24%	$765,825	12/1/13
Nigeria	-	10/11/13	-	-	$11,717	12/8/13
Norway	UIP	10/11/13	-	-	$183,216	10/20/13
Peru	UPI	12/5/13	$87,332	26.4%	$331,287	1/26/14
Philippines	UIP	9/18/13	$97,283	54.8%	$177,382	10/13/13
Poland	UIP	9/20/13	$182,691	18.3%	$999,602	11/10/13
Portugal	-	10/31/13	$104,255	31.4%	$332,155	12/15/13
Russia - CIS	UPI	10/10/13	$486,843	44.9%	$1,084,180	11/3/13
Serbia & Montenegro	UIP	10/17/13	$6,104	16%	$38,161	1/12/14
Singapore	UIP	10/10/13	$197,825	22.8%	$868,240	12/1/13
Slovakia	-	11/7/13	$44,313	38.1%	$116,214	11/24/13
Slovenia	UIP	9/19/13	$5,945	25%	$23,803	10/13/13
South Africa	UIP	10/25/13	$89,378	26.1%	$342,490	1/12/14
South Korea	UIP	12/5/13	$3,421,040	14.6%	$23,434,443	1/19/14
Spain	UPI	10/18/13	$509,694	17.6%	$2,894,564	8/3/14
Sweden	UIP	10/18/13	$114,355	38.9%	$293,908	11/3/13
Thailand	UIP	10/10/13	$194,764	21.3%	$914,088	11/24/13
Turkey	UIP	10/4/13	$106,802	25.4%	$421,028	11/3/13
Ukraine	B and H	9/12/13	$144,820	35.4%	$409,008	10/6/13
United Arab Emirates	Gulf	10/10/13	$76,235	36.1%	$211,169	11/3/13
United Kingdom	UPI	9/4/13	$2,753,095	22.8%	$12,098,359	11/24/13
Uruguay	UPI	11/21/13	$9,635	20.3%	$47,513	1/5/14
Venezuela	UIP	1/31/14	$111,840	22.2%	$504,498	4/20/14

Genre

There are 2 main different kinds of genres. There is the hybrid genre and the sub-genre. A hybrid genre, also known as cross-genre is a genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres. An example of a hybrid genre would be a ROM-COM, so a romantic comedy film. Working Title are globally associated with the ROM-COM genre. Why? Because they have produced several successful ROM-COM hits, such as Bridget Jones Diary, About Time, Love Actually and many more.

When analysing About Time, which came out in 2013 and was a $12 million budget film. It made over $15 million in the American market alone and achieved a total of over $87 million worldwide. Due to this, it is a good example of a ROM-COM hit from Working Title.


Using our coursework as an example, we know that the main genre is horror. There are 4 main types of horror genres known as Psychological, Killer, Monster and Paranormal. Our coursework would be an example of the Killer one. These 4 main types can then be even more in depth and have what is called sub-genres.

A sub-genre or sub-genres are categories thar are subdivisions to a larger genre. As an example, when looking at the table above, slasher genre is a sub-genre of the killer horror genre. So our coursework is also a slasher genre. In the small boxes, you can also see examples of movies that are in the slasher genre. In that box, there are examples of the two movies "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween". Our coursework is inspired from Halloween by John Carpenter from 1978 and therefore we can say that it fits perfectly with this table.

As another example, Kristian's final cut, is a movie about a zombie apocalypse. This would on the other hand not be an example of the killer horror genre but the monster horror genre.

Working Title VS Warp Version 3

When looking at the production company, Working Title, we know that they are a company that produce most Rom-Com's, whereas a company such as Warp, focuses more on the social realist genre. We can see this in movies such as "This is England" and "Mickybo & Me". 

Another film from Warp, which is social realist genre and shows the hard life of an immigrant is the movie "She, a Chinese". The film is about a young girl, Mei, who is a Chinese immigrant, after escaping her provincial Chinese village and immigrating into Britain. 

The entire movie is in Chinese and is therefore not very appealing to a wide audience and would never be able to achieve a wide release. First of all, because there wouldn't be many people who wanted to watch a movie in Chinese and second of all because there are no famous actors in the movie. This movie came out in 2010 and didn't have a main cinema screening and it didn't make that much money. The income it made came from it's DVD and VOD release. 

In this case, the Gant Rule isn't applied, because it did not have any success in Britain and therefore didn't have any success in other countries either. The Gant Rule suggest that if a film is a success in Britain it will make 10x more money in the US and have 10x the amount of screenings if not more. A great example of a British movie that achieved this, is the one from Billy Elliot. The reason, why this movie got so much attention and was a great example of approving the Gant Rule, is because it is about the great American Dream of a young boy. This appeals to a global audience and especially  a wide American audience and therefore it had such a great success.  

Had this been a Working Title movie on the other hand, it would have been done in a completely different way. Working Title always do a more commercial approach in terms of how they distribute their film, how they produce their film and, which cast they choose. 

Due to this, "She, a Chinese", would first of all have been in English, secondly it would have contained at least one American actor or actress and lastly it would have been distributed in very big amounts everywhere, in order for it to be successful and get a lot of screenings. 

As an example, Bridget Jones' Diary was distributed all over the world. Rennee Zellweger's two co-actors, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, are both Britsh, whereas Zellweger is American. 

In terms of distribution, the movie was distributed in a different way from country to country.

In France, as an example, the movie was advertised with this poster, where Zellweger is on it without her co-stars. This was done, because she is one of the big American stars and everyone in France would know her, whereas at that time, only a few would know Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. 

However, in Britain, the movie was advertised with all three actors on it, because both Hugh Grant and Colin Firth are considered as big stars in Britain.

2nd Rough Cut of the Final Scene

This is the 2nd rough cut of the final scene, where the killer kidnaps the final girl. This is the bit that I edited, where I am still going to put sound on and either detach the audio that is on there now to just work with sound effects and non-diegetic music for there to be created a lot of tension.

In the exam there will be 4 main technical aspects that we need to comment on. These are:

• Mise en scene
• Cinematography
• Sound
• Editing

In terms of mise-en-scene, the costume of the central protagonist such as her jacket and her tight jeans denote that her age is around 16-17. You can tell that the central protagonist is not the typical character of the usual scream queen. Had it been a scream queen, she would have had blonde hair, ripped jeans or even a skirt and maybe have a handbag or clutch with her. The choice of the central protagonist wearing a concervative high collar T-Shirt, also emphasise the fact that there was a counter-typing by using the final girl and killing her instead of the scream queen.

Also, the costume of the killer waering all black and having his hoodie up around the mask denotes the genre. The mask is very good, because it really emphasises on the horror genre. Throughout the entire film, the audience isn't able to see the mask until the last bit where the killer finally appears on screen. This creates tension, and I intend to work a lot more with non-diegetic music to be able to build up the tension. Furthermore, when looking at the 1st rough cut, which was edited by Jonathan, you can see how our final girl is getting a false scare, by a woman who only wants to return her bible.

In this clip, which I am going to edit as well, I will begin with the non-diegetic music in order for there to be continuity throughout in terms of sound.
Moreover, there is a different ambient sound in every single shot. because we hear Bronwen's shoes going over the street and then you hear a car as well in the background. Due to this, I will loop the sound from the first shot, so that there will be continuity in it and that the sound doesn't change in the different shots. 

The mise-en-scene is very good outside, and the darkness and the natural appearance of the blue tint helps to connote the genre. This location was chosen on purpose because of the very bright lighting that added this specific blue tint as a natural effect. Because it turned out this well, I will be editing the first rough cut, by adding a blue filter when our central protagonist comes out of the church as well.
Another way we could have portrayed our central protagonist as more vulnerable would be to have framed Bronwen on the left or right side in the frame.
There is also some foreshadowing because she is walking towards a less lit space, where it is very dark, which foreshadows that something is going to happen.
Two other angles, that could have been incorporated, would have been a low angle and a dutch angle to make Bronwen appear as more vulnerable.

This shot was done on purpose to foreshadow, how she is going to get kidnapped. In thsi shot, she is a dark silhouette, which connotes that she is practically already gone.