Evaluation 7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Preliminary Task:

Our preliminary task was shot for 38 seconds. The key role of the short clip was to introduce us to the process of filming and editing. Another reasoning for doing the preliminary task was identify who would be best suited to be the camera person for our group, but even before, I had made up my mind that I would do the filming due to my experience with filming in the past. The preliminary was also used to manifest on and see what improvements would need to be done in terms of cinematography and our thriller.

Preliminary Task Video:

Areas in which I have improved upon:

Within filming, I am now able to film from different camera angles. I represented this parts if the thriller from different angles.

A camera angle shot in which I used was a birds eye view shot. Using a birds eye view allowed the audience to see the characters from directly above, allowing the audience to see what is happening in the scene clearly. 

I am also now better at capturing film movement. A Follow shot was used from behind the female victim as she slowly moved down the stairs, suspecting someone was in her home. This shot allowed me to show the audience what the character was moving towards and allowed the audience to share the tension with the character because just like her the audience is unaware of what is waiting ahead. Although we used different angles within the preliminary, I was able to experiment with other angles during the filming of my groups thriller.

I am now better at editing scenes for a film. I am able to add special effects to scenes, for example changing the quality of the background by manipulating light. Learning how to edit also allow me to merge different clips to make it all look like an full scene, rather than showing separate clips.

After editing the thriller we realised there was a few scenes that we didn't need. This showed that we improved upon our knowledge of editing and edited scenes to make them better and got rid of unwanted scenes.