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

I have learnt a lot while doing this thriller opening, I filmed most of our thriller opening. With filming came a lot of new techniques to learn. One of them for example was having to hold the camera in my hands and over a stair case to film Mia coming up the stairs. With this certain shot I had to make sure that the camera didnt shake or wobble around too much that we wouldnt be able to fix it in the editing stage, I also had to be careful not to drop the heavy camera down two floors and lose all of our footage we had filmed that day.

Another skill we had to develop and progress that we didnt have to do in our preliminary- was to be able to dress a room in a way that you wouldn't find it and then put it back the way we found it.
 

 

This is the room the way we had it before dressing it for our opening. We didn't have a main room in our preliminary, so to go from have different locations all the time to then having one room was difficult to change and get all our ideas in that one room. We had a long conversation before dressing the room how we was going to get all of the props- papers, bible clippings, newspapers, bottles, mattress, the doll- in the shot without it looking too messy or too put together and make it obvious. When we did our preliminary we didn't have this problem because we didn't have any room dressing to do, so then having to do it in our thriller was quite a lot harder.

 

We used a continous sound in our preliminary and our thriller, however we added sound effects in our thriller to make it more realistic than our priliminary was. This was quite hard and advanced our skill because we had to know and be able to make the sound count at the exact moment and action happened in the footage. We never had to do this with the preliminary.