Evaluation quesion 7

Evaluation Question 7:Looking back at your preliminary task,

what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

By Lauren Gorman

From our preliminary task to our actual thriller opening, I feel like that I have learnt a lot.

When we first had to complete our preliminary task, I wasn’t fully aware of how to use a camera and the various different angles in which you could use, due to this fact my preliminary task wasn’t very successful.

In our preliminary task, we had to make sure that we included three main shots which were:

- Match on match action- Shot Reverse Shot- 180 degree rule 180 degree rule in our preliminary We included these shots into our preliminary task, however they looked very

basic and didn’t make the footage look interesting. As the preliminary task goes on the scenes become very ‘shaky’ as we didn’t use the tripod properly. For example, we didn’t make sure that the camera was level and we was also moving the camera whilst on the tripod.

When it came to filming our final product I felt like I had learnt more on the cameras which helped make our footage look more professional. An example of us doing this is when we changed the settings to night vision when we was filming a character in the bed and in the preliminary task we had the settings normal.

Night vision in our thriller opening. Normal settings in our preliminary

When using the tripod, we made sure that it was leveled at all time and still so that the film wouldn’t look blurred, we also decided to use a HD camera which made the quality look a lot better.

In our thriller opening, we used many more shots than the original three which we mainly used in the preliminary tasks. By us using more shots I think that it engages the audience more as they are not viewing the film in the same shots at all times.

When it came to editing our preliminary task, we weren’t very familiar of how to use ‘final cut’ which means that our editing wasn’t up to a very good standard. However, when it came to editing our ‘Unknown’ Thriller opening, I felt like I was more experienced and had more time which meant that I could make our opening look more effective. When using ‘final cut’ to edit my opening, I learnt how to add effects such as dissolve to join clips together which makes the scenes look more interesting and professional the way they join together.

By doing our preliminary task I learnt about continuity which is very important in filming as it tells the story. For example in our preliminary we had to show continuity by a character opening a door, walking through the door, walking across the room and then sitting down at a table. When it came to our thriller opening, we showed continuity by the girl, opening the door, walking out the door and then walking to the park. We made sure that we kept the continuity going to tell the story of the girl walking to the park as it shows the audience a main part in our thriller.

Overall, I feel like that as a group we didn’t give ourselves enough time to plan our preliminary task which may be why it wasn’t as successful as our thriller opening.

On the other hand, when it came to planning and researching into our thriller task, we made sure that we gave ourselves enough time to make sure that everything was planned out which may be a reason of why our thriller task came out better.

Here shows an over the shoulder shot which we used in our preliminary task and an over the shoulder shot in our thriller. The over the shoulder shot which we used in our thriller looks more better as it shows more of an image of what the stalker is looking at. The preliminary task, the over the shoulder shot is more over the head rather than the shoulder.

These two screenshots show ‘close ups.’ Our close up of the phone which we used in our thriller is important as it is showing the audience a message which they have to read, however in our preliminary task, an close up wasn’t needed as it does not show importance.