TASK 7 - Progression from preliminary task to thriller

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you've learnt in the progression from it to the thriller?

Looking back at our prelim task, after having worked on our thriller for the past few months, enables us to see how much we have changed since the filming of our prelim. Firstly, he camerawork in our group improved greatly from our prelim to our thriller. In our thriller, we were able to focus the camera more precisely, making the shots appear clearer when we put it onto the computer to edit. For example, in this shot at the beginning of our prelim, it was quite out of focus, showing that we were less capable in our skills at the time of filming our prelim.

We also had a greater capability of different shots to do in our thriller, as we had learnt more since the filming of our thriller, therefore making it easier to edit due to a wide variety of shots having been filmed. For example, at the beginning of our thriller, we filmed a tracking shot.

 We were not able to do a shot like this in our perlim, however we did film some obsquere shots, which did not work out as well as we had hoped. For example, the shot below from our prelim is an exmple of a shot which we did not think properlly about, as you can see the top of the set and it is therefore obvious that it is not a real house.

We generally have learnt a great deal more since the filming of our prelim, which enabled us to engage in greater amounts of the filming, directing, editing etc of our thriller as we had a greater idea of what we were doing.
The mise en scene in our thriller was used to create a chilling and deserted type of atmosphere, in order to convery the idea that the man and the woman were running away or in a difficult and dangerous situation. This mise en scene was more realistic than the set which we used for our thriller, which was the set of a room with very pieces of furniure in it. The picture below is the set of our prelim.

 The set which we used for our thriller was therefore more realistic and believable.

The editing in our thriller was a lot more effective than the editing in our prelim. For example, in our prelim, we used a very minimal amount of shots, reusing the same camera angles and therefore creating the whole prelim task out of only about 4 different shots. However, in our thriller, we used a large variety of shots. We were also able to add a lot of after effects, such as blood and gun flashes into our thriller in editing.

We were not able to do this in our prelim task, as we have since learnt how to do it.
In our thriller, we used added in sound effects, suck as the background music and gunshots. These were very effective into making the thriller seem more realistic. However, in our prelim we werent able to add in sound effects like this, as we did not have this skill yet.