EVALUATION Q7: Looking back at your prelimary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q7: Looking back at your prelimary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Pre-Production

For our prelim we discussed as a group the main hollywood blockbuster films, including Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Disturbia and many others we decided to use Scream as our research thriller film for our prelim to be based on. We laid out a storyboard of how our prelim shot would be taken; as we based our prelim on Scream we used the idea of two young teenagers in a school and the villain Ghostface as our thriller antagonist. 

The use of making the prelim helped our group to practise filming a remake/original idea of a thriller scene, 180 degree rule was discussed as the correct why to film a film, making a more realistic scene and flows through to the next scene of the film. Our props was the environment that we used - being the college - and technical equipment was provided by candistudios located within the college grounds. 

Production

We had a set time to film within a three hour lesson, creating us to rush a bit on the filming of the prelim   in the college, compared to the final product of our thriller opening were we filmed during lesson times at a peers house and during half term holidays. Filming for the final product was a tiring experience, were we had to re-record shots to make sure the 180 degree rule was use and the perfect lighting and shot angle. I did not participate with the filming of the film, but I opinionated my thought of how different shots would be taken to create the best clips for editing and a variety of choses. We set a timetable of the day that we would record at Rebecca's house (sunday and monday nine till five) and organised the pick up of equipment from the college studios, were we collected everything we needed.

Post Production

In a pervious lesson we learnt the use of editing on Final Cut Pro along with editing individually our own thriller opening of Arlington Road, which would now come into action with of final product; the pervious lesson helped us to put new skills to the test and helped edit a clean opening for our thriller. We then learnt how to add sounds and titles to our opening to create the full effect of a professional opening. However the difficulty of putting the sound from Soundtrack Pro onto the final product as the sounds from soundtrack were not quite as similar to the movement on the final thriller. 

Analysis

Prelim lighting was not a successful as the final product as we used professional light stands the create the atmosphere of light, unlike the prelim that used the hallway lighting. Our prelim mise-en-scene was successful with the storyline of a typical thriller - an empty school, two friends alone, young, vulnerable and a mysterious antagonist which is the same typical mise-en-scene use of our final product. Our camerawork improved from the prelim to the final product; there was a lot more use of different angle shots and camera movements (pans, zooms etc) unlike the prelim that used simple tracking movements and similar angle shots. On Final Cut Pro we used lots of different editing techniques (fades, cuts to next clip) whereas the prelim we used sharp editing and little use of title editing. Overall i think we successful used sound, and a creative use of the conception of thriller opening for our final product, and we more successful then our practise prelim.