What I have learnt from filming a run through of my opening seqence

We filmed a run through of our thriller opening sequence, similar to our storyboard, to decide if we wanted to keep anything the same or change something for when filming the real one. From filming the run through we learnt what shots looked best for certain scenes or if we would have to play around with different shots when filming the real thing. Also, we established what type of lightning we wanted to use to give the mysterious and suspense effect to the narrative. We also learnt what effect we wanted to create through the rest other aspects of the mise-en-scene, for example, we knew that we wanted to film on a suburban street but through filming our run through we decided we wanted to film on a quieter street so there wouldn't be a lot of background noise and cars driving past, like in the run through, in our real thriller. We also decide we wanted the man's costume to be a suit and tie with black gloves in our real opening sequence to make him look more important and authoritarian as well as dangerous because of the black gloves. This is to present him clearly to the audience as the antagonist. We also leant that make the beginning when the audience sees the car drive down the street and pull up outside the house slightly longer so it is not rushed into and to make it a good opening and establishing shot for the tension to start building and so the audience immediately become gripped. Lastly, we have learnt that we need to make sure the camera is less shaky when filming the final opening sequence as it will make it look more professional as in our run through the camera was moving around quite a bit. We also have to ensure when editing that the cuts aren't so jumpy and flow well from scene to see so the audience can grasp and understand what is going on in each scene properly.