Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
When we created our preliminary task, we didn’t really
think through what we were going to do. We initially just thought of an idea
and developed it verbally. The planning was quite poor in terms of the
potential that our preliminary task could have achieved if we sat down and
discussed it fully.
However, for our thriller opening, we decided to not
follow our preliminary task. Instead we corrected all the wrongs that the
preliminary task had sprung up.
For example, we used storyboards to visually
represent what we had pictured to be in our thriller opening. By having
storyboards, we could see where new ideas would go into our opening if they
weren’t storyboarded yet. We also researched our target audience so that we
would know who would watch our thriller. This too was something that we
overlooked in our preliminary task.
As you can see in the stills of me in
front of someone I am within arms length of him however, in the next scene I am
further away from him. This was a failure in terms of continuity, as I
should’ve stayed in front of him so that the story could have flow better. This
error was due to my group forgetting about continuity. At the time, we were
more focused on having a good narrative. We should have double-checked each
recording as we were taking them.
Camera shots: As this was the first
time my group had ever filmed, we didn’t know a lot of the different shot types
and angles. In the preliminary task, we used match on action, close ups, varied
shot lengths and over the shoulder shots. After we noticed how few shots and
angles we used, we decided to research different types that would be effective
in a thriller opening.
We also showed conversation between
two characters by using over the shoulder shots however; this shot was not used
during our thriller opening as we only had one protagonist throughout.
Long shots are generally used to
introduce the audience to the film thus; we used this as our first shot.
Match on action is where two shots
from different angles have complete continuity between them masking it look
like one movement.
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