Question 3

Looking back at you preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt

in the progression from I to full product?

Preliminary task

During my preliminary task I made quite a few mistakes, for example no sticking to the 180 degree rule and having to re-film a bit of it. Although, I learnt a lot from the preliminary task such as camera angles and when and how to use them, I also learnt the basics of editing like cutting and grouping.

Research

After the preliminary task I researched adobe premiere, the software we were to use for the thriller. I learnt more about sound and colour editing techniques and was able to apply them to my thriller when I needed to.

Filming techniques

The 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot were not needed for my thriller so we did not use it, there were no conversations or interactions between two people.

We did use match on action during the end scene when the girl walks into the garage and sees the other girls on the floor.

Storyboard and schedules

The storyboard was helpful to set out what we were going to film and to make sure everyone in the group was in the same mind set for shooting but when it came to actually filming we felt we didn’t need to use the storyboard as we all discussed everything we needed to do while filming.

In the same way the schedules were helpful for us to inform our actors about times but we found it hard to stick exactly to the schedule and ended up having to film on another day. Therefore we should have tried harder to stick to the schedules discussed.

Changes

During filming we came across some dificultieswith some shots therefore we had to make decisions on how we would change some shots. This happened with our first shot and is how came across using the 360 degree shot in the way that we did. When it came to the last scene we wanted a sense of randomness about the girls and how they were spread out so we made the decision of positions at the time.

Time

During the filming day we unfortunately did not stick to correct time schedules and neither did our actors therefore we had to film over two days instead of our plan which meant we could have finished in one day.

Managing crew

Luckily our actors were very easy to manage and they did what they were directed to do therefore our shots went smoothly, some times we were unsure exactly what shots we wanted so we shot them from different angles. Luckily our location was a house for a lot of it so we were able to organise that with ease but when it came to the forest following scenes it was a little trickier as we had to get actors and equipment to different places. But we organised I well and made sure timings were correct so we could get the filming done swiftly to make sure we took less time.