I chose to evaluate this shot as we hope it puts the audiences focus on the props. It is an over-the-shoulder shot that shows our antagonists point-of view whilst also showing the audience his actions, which is important in this shot as we wanted the crossbow being aimed and fired at our protagonist to be shown fully. We lined up this shot and directed our actors so that the crossbow could be seen fully and also our main character being shot. This will appeal to our target audience as they don't want rough edits and cuts made so that they can't see the violence in the film, they want to see everything and this shot achieves that by fitting everything in. At this stage in the scene, the audience should know of the importance of the briefcase, and the way our protagonist runs onscreen and the way he falls means that the briefcase is visible. Hopefully, the audience will always be keeping one eye on the briefcase and where the briefcase goes as they know that the briefcase is what our villain is after.
This shot was quite difficult to achieve, as it was quite muddy on the ground where we were filming which meant our actor could not get the fall wrong as if we re-filmed the shot his costume and the prop would have already been muddy before he fell to the ground, ruining the realism of the scene. For this reason we made sure we ran through every part of this shot carefully so every small detail such as positioning of the actors, positioning of the props, camera angles and the actions our characters make were exactly how we envisioned. Luckily, we got the take we needed first time so we didn't have to re-film it. This shot also allowed us plenty of room on the left third of the screen to put in another title, which was useful.
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