Task 7 - Looking back at my preliminary task, what do I feel I have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Planning
Overall, I was much more passionate about the actual Thriller project and involved a lot more planning and organisation for. We started a couple of months before the shooting day thinking about an idea for the sequence whereas the preliminary task only took an hour to shoot and was basically a one lesson exercise. We didn't think of any characters, locations or storylines and the storyboard was given to us in contrast to the thriller where we came up with everything on our own.
Preliminary task storyboards:
Our storyboards:
Film making skills - Camerawork
In the thriller shoot we used much more different, a little quirky angles and shots that communicate the genre of thriller and create a scary or mysterious atmosphere, such as canted or low angle shots.
and also POVs to show how someone is watching our main character from outside of the house through a window.
or showing a cut-in of only her feet taking off her shoes helping to build tension and highlighting that time that was passing as she was getting undressed.
In the prelim we were pretty much just straight forward and only had normal close-ups, over the shoulder, and wide shots.
Sound
Firstly I have learnt how to add music to a piece of film and help draw attention to a particular character through the use of music. In my preliminary I didn't use any music and diegetic sounds. Especially in the beginning of my thriller, I used music to set the scene and to create an impression of the bad character. Whereas we used the tense silence to communicate a dangerous situation in our prelim. (But actually we just didn't really have time to add music as an aftereffect...)
(She turns when hearing someone enter the room, while music slowly increases again!)
At last, now in know how to add credits into a filmed sequence. In the post-production of the prelim we completely ignored this aspect.
(He's about to leave the room but turns again to tell his accomplice something important, no music no sound, the suspense is low.)
Aftereffects
I have also learnt how to make a scene brighter and to keep the continuity of the brightness through out the sequence. As in one of my prelim shots its very dark and there is a shadow against the wall, making it look very low budget and unprofessional. Whereas in my thriller, the lighting is much brighter and the light is continually bright throughout the film, making the scenes better within terms of continuity and visually more appealing.
Shadows:
Continuity of lighting:
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