At the beginning of this shot, the audiences main questions have changed. The main characters face has been revealed, and now the question is who made that noise that caused the character to say "he's here," and hang up the phone. This shot is a long shot, and we decided to subvert audience expectations by making the action happen in the part of the screen they'd be most unsuspecting of (the least important third of the screen) with the arrow being fired into the tree. This shot also suggests to the audience that this is an action film as this is the beginning of a chase scene and involves weapons which is conventional of an action film.
The trees in the background look good in this shot as they look dark and twisted and visually interesting as opposed to straight and perfectly spaced out trees that would make the scene look brighter as opposed to the gloomy atmosphere the suspense in this shot works to create. We were disappointed not to be able to experiment with the focus in this shot, as the camera we used didn't have this function. If we had have had this to experiment with, we could have achieved our original idea for the shot, which was to have the tree out of focus and then brought into focus as the arrow hits it. We think this would have looked better but the shot still works without it.
This shot also serves as an introduction for our villain. The first thing our audience associates with this yet-unknown person is violence and threat. The main character clearly knows and fears this man through what the audience hears him say on the phone ("He's here, I'll call you back"). His choice of weapon of a crossbow shows our villain is a loose-cannon and he's not afraid of blood, making him seem more crazy and therefore more of a threat.
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