Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your prelim task what do you feel have learnt in the progression form it to the full product?


During the time when we were doing or preliminary, we were I was already confident I using the equipment because we had practiced in class. I was able to use my skills and help contribute doing the prelim task.

Pre-production is the process in which you prepare all the elements needed in a film. For our thriller opening we had storyboarded our idea with comments such as what kinds of props we will need , where to position the camera and what type of camera shots we are going to use, we had to also plan the type of audience we would target our thriller. This is an advantage because for our thriller opening as it is a guide for us to follow and amend anything. We would amend anything during the production of our thriller. Adding to that we had to make sure that the location we were going to film in was available for us. We had to also plan what props to buy for filming our thriller because we did not want anything to go wrong. While we were doing our preliminary we had to make sure the prelim opening did not look like a trailer, we had to make it into a storyline. Or else there would be no point of calling it an opening to a thriller.

Throughout this process, I believe we obtained valuable planning and organization skills, which proved to be very helpful to end our thriller opening, (TWELVE). Due to the fact we had limited time for the prelim the sketches were drawn roughly whereas our actual thriller opening storyboard, we had time and we properly thought and organized what shots/angles and what the character was going to do. We were very organized in planning what time we were going to get to the location of film and to when and we were going to edit our thriller.

In the production of a film the film is created and filmed. Throughout the production of our film, we tried to keep to the storyboard as much as possible, this is because it would be less complex as it was our first idea and making changes would affect the whole opening. Whilst the production of our film, as a group I had found it comfortable to film as we had worked together to use the camera. Also, sharing the role meant that we all had input into the production of the thriller. We were all able to put forward the skills we had learnt and developed from our preliminary task.

Finally, post production is where the film is pull together to have stability so that it is presentable to audiences. In post production for our thriller, we had used a software Final Cut Pro to edit our clips. On this software, we had also used it to add transitions such as fade in and fade out, we used another software called live type to and add titles of the cast, director, producer and the name of our thriller, this was to follow the conventions of thriller openings. After editing our clips together, we had imported it into Soundtrack Pro so that we could add music to our opening. We had searched for sounds on this software which would be suitable to use for our opening. Furthermore, we had used Foley sounds to highlight the use of some of the props in our thriller opening. For example, we had used the diegetic sound of the book closing to emphasise the fact that our actor was in frustration that all the chanting was not working.

Overall, during both the productions of the preliminary task and our final film I have been able to increase my knowledge on using all the equipment. It has also helped me in becoming more familiar with the software we had used in the production of our thriller. One of the problem was matching shots together so that it would make sense to the audience. However, we did overcome this problem by re-filming some shots so that we could then use them in our opening. The overall thriller opening was superb.