Prelim compare
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The document discusses improvements made from the preliminary task to the full thriller product. Some key areas of improvement included: - Increased planning time for the thriller allowed for better storyboarding, idea sharing, and research. - A wider variety of camera shots and angles were used compared to the prelim. Lighting and locations were also more varied. - Sound quality was improved by prerecording dialogue. Strategic use of music and silence was employed. - Editing techniques like match cuts and fades were adjusted based on feedback. Faster pacing replaced fades between shots/titles. - Greater attention to mise-en-scene details like costumes, props, and locations fitting the thriller genre.
Prelim compare
- 1. LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?
- 2. PLANNING In our prelim, we didn’t have much planning at all, it was spontaneous. We were given a task, and we went off to take pictures for our storyboard, and then film on a different day. However, when we were filming our thriller, we had a lot of time to plan for it. This gave us time to discuss our ideas, and talk about what we think works, and what doesn’t work. It also gave us time to look through our prelim and pick out any errors, and improve them, making sure that we didn’t include them in our thriller. One example of planning that we improved from, was the images we took for our storyboard. We improved this by making the pictures look much more like the camera shots and angles we were going to use in our thriller to make it easier to film. The second example of planning that we improved was the sharing of ideas throughout the post-production. We would blog any ideas that we thought were good so the rest of the group could see, we didn’t do this in the prelim. The last example of improvements to our planning was our research into similar psychological thrillers. We took more time to research, to make it more realistic, whereas in our prelim we had no research.
- 3. CAMERA ANGLES/SHOT TYPES In our prelim we had a lack of certain shots, which we tried to include in our thriller. Example, in our thriller we included over the shoulder shots which were tighter, because we had a lack of them in our prelim. Also we decided to include more extreme close up’s and close ups to vary the camera shots, because we we didn’t have enough in our prelim. In our prelim, we didn’t have much distance between the camera and the characters because of the way the actors were positioned this didn’t require the camera to move much. In contrast, our thriller had different camera distances throughout, because the actors were constantly moving. Similarly, in our thriller we used different techniques of filming for example we used tracking and panning to vary the camera filming so it isn't the same all throughout the opening. We did this because in the prelim we use a variety of camera techniques, and we thought that including them in our thriller would make it more effective and successful.
- 4. LIGHTING The lighting in our thriller was varied because we shot in different locations, which were inside and outside, in comparison to our prelim which we just filmed inside, in a dark room with one spot light. We filmed outside for our thriller because it was more realistic and it gave us good lighting and so we didn’t need to use any artificial light. However in the dance scene of our opening, we used dimmer lighting, to create atmospheric tension. Also we used a phone as a source of light, because we felt turning on the main lights would be too harsh and would take away the suspense/tension.
- 5. SOUND In our prelim we used actual dialogue, this wasn’t successful because it didn’t sound clear, and so we learnt from our mistake by pre recording our dialogue in our thriller to make is sound more clear. In the dance scene we used non diegetic music which we added in post production, this was successful because it made the scene more realistic. We didn’t use any sound in our thriller except the music, because we liked the effect of silence in our prelim, and we wanted to keep this effect in our thriller.
- 6. EDITING/TITLES In our prelim we used fade in and fade outs but when receiving feedback we realised that having fades in different locations was good, however when they occur in the same room is doesn’t work well. In our thriller we didn’t use fades because we wanted to create a different effect. We used several match cuts which was too many in our prelim, and so we didn’t want to use as many match cuts in our thriller. In our prelim we used stand alone titles which we used also in our thriller opening, because we liked the effect that it created, however in our prelim between the shots and the titles we used fades in and outs, we didn’t use this in our thriller, because our thriller was more fast paced than our prelim and we thought that the fades would slow down the pace.
- 7. MISE-EN-SCENE In our prelim we didn’t think much or plan our mise-en-scene. For example the outfits of our characters weren’t planned, whereas for out thriller because it was much more planned we could discuss was characters would wear and bring in clothes/props to suit their role on the days of filming. Location for our prelim was very basic because we only had a short amount of time to film it, however for our thriller opening we had more time to plan where we would go, also producing a schedule for each persons date and time preferences meant we could be prepared.