Evaluation - Question 7

I gained skills in film taking, I was able to learn and apply my new knowledge in different camera angles. Furthermore, i was able to to gain and develop upon. This skill helped me edit and finalise my film. 

Our preliminary task helped us gain an insight to the different camera angles we should include in order to make our opening scene successful. In addition with our preliminary task, we had to ensured that continuity would play a part in our thriller, as this adds fluidity from scene to scene. I have acquired several skills since our preliminary task, which most of these were towards editing, camera shots and angles. 

Comparing my preliminary to my thriller, i would obviously say that my thriller is better. This is because in the beginning when doing our preliminary, we weren't quite sure as to how we should use final cut express and how to show continuity editing. Also throughout our preliminary, we weren't constant ie. we kept on changing our clothes and out hairstyle. this in turn emphasised the fact that it wasn't shot on the same day and also shows how inexperienced we were at doing a film.

This is our preliminary task.

The quality of shot in our thriller opening was really good. This is because when shooting, we continued using the tripod at all times. And even when we had to move with the actors the camera was still on the stand so that the image that was seen wasn't that shaky.

I think the quality of the image came out really well. with our preliminary task when had a lot of light so this put our filming process at more of an advantage. as compared to our thriller opening, where there was a lot of darkness. especially in the fight scene. However, we were able to work with this and use it to our advantage.

With our preliminary task, we weren't sure on how to work with the microphone because of this, we had to use subtitles instead. But in our thriller, we managed to figure out how to use the microphone and with this the quality of sound that we had we better compared to the preliminary task. When editing the audio we made sure to use audio levels to fade out or fade in the sounds to allow the music to be heard or introduce a new frame. In our thriller we also use non diegetic sounds such as the heartbeat and ambulance siren to emphasise what was showing on screen.

Continuity in our preliminary task wasn't good. This is because our costumes throughout the scenes kept on changing. It wasn't consistent. Me and my partner decided to take this on board and learnt from our mistake. So when shooting our thriller opening, we made sure that we kept the same costumes throughout the opening.

Compared to our preliminary task there is continuity in editing. We made sure to include many camera angles and techniques which we were lacking in our preliminary task.