Evaluation Question 7

Look back at your preliminary task; what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When originally planning how we were going to produce our film opening after coming up with the idea, creating a time schedule of when and where, came easy and simple to our group. This is because we previously created an animatic of our opening which included the setting, mise en scene ect luckily an member of our group had a big enough space in her bedroom to film.  When pre producing the opening we left out a key element which was vital when it came to filming the scenes, this being the table which the girl is sitting at. 

This cost us allot of time as our plan was to get the filming completed on a tight schedule of two days because the actor used was busy. In addition, we had planned to film the morning scene that day but could not because it was getting darker.

Other mise en scenes were used throughout the opening such as the crystal ball, which we used for a match cut.

From filming our prelim we understood the 180 degree rule and challenged different shots when filming our opening,

3 shots - wide angle above with a close up and medium shot below. We used all 3 successfully in our final product.

As we were filming at night (in the dark) it was isential that we had an attached light for our camera to help make the image more clearer but had to use it on a minimum power as the bright light would show up  as a square on the walls so the final opening was darker than wanted.

We had previously had practice in editing and found that we all had our strengths in different areas such as final cut pro, sound track pro and word pro, we used this to our advantage. Instead of working on each one at a time all together, we focused on different area and put it together in the end, still helping each other on the way. Editing the scenes took the longest as the clip resulted in being too short so we had to rethink a beginning and quickly film it. We were going to include blank screens to split up scenes therefore making it longer but as we have a lot of layering in would not look right and may confuse viewers.

So we elongated the beginning by filming a wide shot of the building and following through to the bedroom, we thought this would be good to show where the film is being set.

We had a vague idea of what we wanted the sound to be like, based on what mood we wanted to portray by looking at previous thrillers and searching up particular instrumentals  on YouTube but when it came down to creating it on sound cut pro it was difficult to get the perfect sound. From using sound cut pro for our preliminary task we were familiar with the instrumental used then and thought that would be a good sound to use for our opening (which it was).  We also had a problem with finding the rite alarm sound so we had to play around with the volume and tone to get it to the sound we wanted.

For our tittles we wanted to create a suspicious and psychological theme so we used a crackle effect on the writing to show the girl is unstable ect.

By doing the preliminary task it has helped us with the knowledge to complete our thriller opening with a considerable amount of ease as every technology we used to complete it very much familiar to us.