LOOKING BACK AT YOU PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT

Evaluation

PLANNING

The planning stage is one of the key differences between the preliminary and the opening.

With the preliminary not a lot of planning went into the idea, we discussed that we wanted to have a gangster theme and went from there and started filming.

Whereas with the opening, we thought of 3 narrative ideas took a week to decide on our final idea. We made a podcast discussing the reasons for why we chose the final idea, we then storyboarded the idea and created an animatics showing specific shots and transitions

PLANNING

For the opening the planning continued with: Storyboarding our idea Planning the character's costume Creating a timeline for when and where the filming and

editing will take place.

The Drop Off – Preliminary

Capture - Opening

Improvements

The transitions used are better and allow the opening to flow better than the preliminary. E.g. Dissolve edit and cuts

In the preliminary the transitions we chose were chosen as we thought they looked good, however looking back there is no flow between the scenes

In the Opening we used transitions to create meaning for example the fading in and out of two scenes to show the scenes taking place at the same time.

Improvements

The use of text is merged into the visual whereas in “The Drop Off” all the credits are at the very beginning and the end.

During the editing of the preliminary we just assumed the credits always came at the end.

In the opening, after watching many opening’s to get ideas we noticed that about 20 credits play during the opening. So we added in the credits so that our opening would look as real as possible.

Improvements

We used a variety of camera techniques – Over the shoulder shot, extreme close ups, slow pans, point of view shots, ground level shot, long shots, different focuses and match on action

In the preliminary our shot reverse shot was not entirely aliened and and the match on action was rushed.

In the opening the match on action that was created flowed extremely well both times.

Other Improvements

In our final piece one thing we should of added was a clear representation of the 180 degree rule.

The equipment was also better for our final piece which made it easier to make.

How successful?

Overall, I think our final thriller opening was successful also I feel that I have improved from the preliminary task. I have learned a lot about how much work goes into film-making from the idea to the final edit. I have learned how to use camera techniques that I clearly did not know how to use in my preliminary, such as soft focus.

Our final piece was successful as we made sure that the opening conformed to the thriller genre, by using certain music and establishing our protagonist and antagonist within the opening.