Critique

As a cameraman, I attempt to get to know everything that could make the camera works better and the shot looks more professional. I have been research most of the technique as a cameraman need which include the lighting, types of the shot, angels of camera, but I forget the most important thing that I didn't participant to make the storyboard. That leads me in a fair awkward position, change the shots on the storyboard they been made or add a bit more my own opinion without changing the original. I picked the second one, the only valuable things I did were add two point of view shots which adds a bit tension on the screen. The rest of time I was just a rookie like "hey, is that what you mean?" after each shot.
But I still felt good about that I got how camera works in the movie. I gotta watch out what sort of shot and angel they shooting when I see the next movie. What long shot, mid-shot, and close up stand for, which basically mean establishing background, the most commonly used shot for dialogue after set the background, magnified something to emphasize a emotion or specified detail of an object.
I am also another role in the team, the sound effects editor. According to watch a few Hollywood and Japanese outstanding horror movie(Nightmare of Elm street, The ring) throughout my observation, the most thing make a movie scary is not the horror, supernatural scenes stand alone, but also the rhythm of building up tension by a increasing heartbeat, annoying scratching sound etc. or even a completely silence. They are all about the expectation and surprise, that the audience knows something gonna happen but not sure about where and when, you can suddenly stop the building up by creating a small issue like a animal pass through or a phone call, to make the audience feels relief, then use the most horror scene by the bang noise following the screaming to shock them. Otherwise If we get rid of the sound effects from the movie, it will look ridiculous, just a sequence of cutting shots.
A fairly popular visual effects in horror films, flash back transition(just like the background gets blur then quickly white flash to another scene come with a shuu noise) to represent the character had a vision or it was just a dream, or the character saw something and associated something else.