My Main Task
My Preliminary
After watching our prelim task which we created in October 2012, I
realised how much my skills have improved in filming and editing. The camera
work in our prelim is effective and we had a wide variation; each shot made
sense with the dialogue, e.g. shot reverse shots, wide shots, and close ups to
show expression and emotion. However when watching our thriller that we created
a lot more recently, the difference is very clear as it is much better. In the
thriller our use of camera work was a lot more advanced and professional, for
example, we opened it with a tracking shot that I filmed on tracks, it is a good
establishing shot to introduce our thriller. For our thriller we filmed hand held for a lot of the action; such as the chase scene between Anna and the assasin, to add more realism and a distressed feel to the action. We also had close ups to show emotion and create more emotion and feeling to the characters, and make the action more realistic; such as a close up of Anna as the speed and pace slow down, creating more tention as she looks scared during the chase. We also had close ups of the surounding, such as the suroundings, eg the emphasis of Paul locking up the cargo container, this also was good as it creaded a wider variaty of shots making our thriller more visually pleasing.
Prelim:
Main Task:
The M-E-S was not effective in our prelim as we were not really
aware of what the story line really was and just randomly chose to work with
the equipment we had in the room at the time. We were given a simple script
just to practise filming dialogue, it helped a lot as we learned about the 180°
rule and shot reverse shots, etc. We used the sound system equipment as a
headset and controls to portray a storyline of the woman being commanded by the
man to send a signal or explosion somewhere. The story line was quite vague
which I think this made the prelim quite unclear and not very enticing. However
in our thriller we had a lot more time to think about the story line and we
created several story boards and pitched our ideas , which made us have a lot
more thrilling, convincing story that would attract an audience a lot more. The
M-E-S for our thriller was perfect, it happened to have snowed the night before
and in some parts of filming it was snowing which made the setting look a lot
more mysterious and exciting, suiting our thriller, action genre. We also had
very good props, the car was dirty and old, suggesting it had been stolen as
they were on the run, the guns created dramatic tension and suited the action
thriller genre. The costume for the prelim was not thought through as we quickly filmed on that day and did not change the actors' clothes; however for our main task we planned their costume and appearance in a lot of detail, as we wanted to portray Anna as sophisticated and sexy and Paul as cool and casual, we achived this through their clothes well.
Prelim:
The editing in our prelim was pretty basic but worked very well
with the actions of the two characters; when the man sat down on the chair, the
camera cut to a closer shot of him sitting about to say his line. When she
responded to him we cut to her face and then again to his reaction. At the end
we did a low angle shot looking up at the man as he delivers his last line,
sinisterly; this angle suits this as it makes him look in control and the
powerful one. We also added text as subtitles as they spoke in Russian, I found
this complex at first as it was time consuming but after a few times I realized
I could copy and paste the text and then change the words which was faster; the
text looked very effective. Even though the editing was good and suited the
prelim; comparing it to our thriller, you can see how much more adventurous we
were with the thriller. We had a variety of shots that we cut up and edited
together to keep the action up, changing angles and close ups frequently. We
also created a moving title to end the opening which looks very professional
and finishes it off well. When editing we also did a lot of special effects
from the guns and blood which took a long time but look really great and make
the action more intense and realistic. Looking back at the prelim, the pace is very slow, making the scene quite dull, however when editing our main task we increased the varaiation of editing a lot. At first it was slow paced as we opened the thriller to introduce the surroundings and the characters; however the shots sped up to match the music creating more tention. When the action kicks in we editted the shots a lot faster after watching an action, chase scene in the Terminator as we liked the result it gave. This made our thriller a lot more action and tention building with a thrilling storyline, and the faced paced ,sped up shots created confusion and anxiety; we sped up some of the shots to add more speed to the thriller, keeping it intresting.
Prelim:
Mail Task:
For our prelim we only had the diegetic sound from the dialogue which was not very exciting; we also didn't alter the sound channels of the left and right speaker. However in our thriller I spend a long time making sure that both of the speakers were the same sound at the same level. I did this by listening to both and choosing which was best and using it for both speakers, and levelled it out. I also had to cut out some background noise and replace it with sound that was more appropriate; I also did this for some of the dialogue that was too quiet and muffled by choosing the sound from another clip. We also created our own music from a song originally from the music from the program; we then cut out the bits that we liked from the song and lengthened them and cut them together, creating our own mix. We also added sound effects to go with the special effects such as glass smashing and gun shots; this made the action very believable and increased tension. I feel we have improved so much in all aspects and have become a lot more advanced.
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