Final Preliminary Film

16/01/09
Final Preliminary Film

Using the techniques and learning from the errors made in the last Preliminary task our group were asked to devise another thriller scene. We were aware of the errors we had made last time (e.g. tripod leg exposed in final cut of piece, no sound due to deadline) and were determined to finish and create a piece of substantial quality.

Our first few shots were similar to our previous prelim task so we had an idea of the structure and framing that the shot should be. The continuity of the beginning shots I feel were effective and the progression we had made from the previous task to this one was significant.

It was clear that our group as a whole had exceeded our creativity and thought processes as we all had unique and quirky ideas to contribute when filming. We used new techniques such as turning the lights off on one side of the room when the character was walking into the room to use the shadow as a means of continuity.

We also explored different angles and shot sizes to build up tension and prolong the thrilling event, some of the angles we used were; high angle, eye-level angle, extreme close ups, over the shoulder shots and two shots.

By the end of this lesson we had around 25 shots to be cut down into sequence duration of a minute so editing this will be difficult but as we have all learnt from the last prelim it shouldn’t be too bad as we have a stronger idea of what we want our work to depict.