Looking back at
the preliminary task, there are significant differences between the prelim
task, which we filmed and edited around October and the Thriller, which we
finished filming around February and finished editing around late February-beginning
of March. In the prelim task, it was the first time that I was introduced to
the filming progress. In the prelim task each group were given out the
storyboard by the staff this made it much more easier for us to film because we
know what kind of shots we need so there are 3 shots that we used, which are
over the shoulder, wide shot and close up in total we put these 3 shots and
line it up in to 12 shots in total. However, when compare our thriller with our
prelim, the camerawork in our prelim looks far less professional because it was
our first time so we did not actually know how to use the equipment in result
the colour from one scene to another is different while in our thriller is look
far more effective and convincing.
Initially in our prelim, our main idea is to learn how to film and edit so we
did not focus on making it look realistic like in real life situation therefore
we did not focus on mise-en-scene all we had we just a corner of a room, a
light and a props of a can of spray while in our thriller we want to make it
realistic as real life situation as possible. In order to do this we choose to
represent Mise-en-scene by focusing on using props, lighting, costumes and
actors. By using proper costumes, police uniforms this makes our thriller looks
more realistic and by using guns as our props this helps creates the sense of
danger and violence which is our main ideas for our thriller. In contrast with
the prelim, which we did not have any props. In term of actors, in our thriller
we have the middle age man to play the father. This makes it more realistic and
more convincing, which down the line make it more effective than our prelim
because in the prelim we used 2 teenagers, which are not very skillful in term
of acting.
Overall, we didn’t find
any difficulties in term of editing. Frankly, both tasks are quite similar in
term of editing. In our prelim we did not focus on creating any meaning, so we
did not use as many different types of shot. We used shot reverse shots, match
on action, low angle and high angle.
However, in our
thriller we slightly used different types of shots. We used eye line match and
match on action to helps create tension, low and high angle to imply the power
of each individual character.
As a group we worked very well
together on the thriller partly because we spent time together and got to know
each one much better. This massively helps in term of decision making because
we know that we can rely on each other. Also because we gained more experience along the way such as we know more about how to use the camera, how to pull out the best use of lighting and how to get the most of different camera shots such as hand held shots which very useful for us because it helps massively on building up the tension. However the most vital experience is that we know how to use Final cut pro much more efficient than when we did our prelim task.
In progress of making the thriller, we also used the program that we did not have a chance or not necessary for us to use in our prelim which is the Adobe After Effects. we use this program to create the murder scene in our thriller, in this scene we put the crosshair in and black out the edge of the shots to create the image as we as the audiences are looking through the sniper's scope
Our thriller "UMIA"
Our Preliminary Task
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