Question 7

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

Skills For our prelim task, the skills we had were very basic. We

had not fully planned out our prelim in terms of pre production, production and post production.

- Our pre production stage which was the planning and storyboarding wasn’t detailed enough which then meant that when it came to shooting the actual prelim task, our overall finished product wasn’t as professional looking at our actual thriller movie which had weeks of planning.

Furthermore, during our actual production, which was the filming, our lack of skills meant that it effected the quality of things such as the camera angles or lighting.

For example, we didn’t really know various different camera angles so we stuck with the most commonly used ones which then made our prelim seem very ‘armature’ rather than professional and exciting to look at.

Mise en Scene In our prelim, we didn’t take much care when choosing the Mise

en scene; we weren’t selective with it. Mise en scene is very important because by looking at what objects you have while filming you can change the mood of the clip as a whole & by not being selective with our Mise en scene our audience may have interpreted the prelim in different ways.

Lighting Lighting is very important when it comes to shooting, Low key

lighting can connote danger and mystery whereas high key lighting connotes honesty. Our prelim was some sort of secret deal being done; by having high my lighting we didn’t have a mysterious atmosphere which would be what we needed in that case.

Editing In our preliminary task, we were mostly doing match cuts,

however our match cuts weren't as good as they should have been because of our lack of practise which then made our prelim not as good as it could have been.

We however managed to follow the 180 degree rule which helped us in how it ended up looking for the audience because this rule makes your sequence look a lot better and professional.

Sound and Titles The sound that was used was diegetic sound, diegetic sound

usually makes the sequence seem less professional because the sound isn’t very crisp and ‘clean’, by doing this it was clear that we hadn’t had a lot of practise previously which then clearly effected the prelim as a whole.

Our titles were also very basic, we didn’t take much effort with the font which didn’t make our prelim look as professional as it could have been

Compare these skillsBy the time we as a group actually started planning, shooting, editing

our title sequence our skills had improved as a whole, we had taken into account everything. For example, we had made sure that our male character had dirty looking clothes on which would add more drama to the title sequence as a whole. We also took into account things such as lighting, sound, titles and made sure that they would all link together with the plot of our title sequence helping the audience understand what’s happening more.

To sum it up As a whole, I have learnt a lot across both productions, I have

learnt that the smallest details can have the biggest impact and that in order to have a professional and successful looking title sequence, a lot of planning is required. I have also learnt how to use different programmes such as final cut pro, soundtrack pro which have helped us massively in creating our title sequence and making it look professional.