Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the product?
The comparison to my preliminary and my thriller now is that my preliminary was a bit dodgy because of our camera movement, when we filmed we didn't move it fluidly, so when we edited our film the shots looked shaky and unprofessional. However our thriller now looks professional and the camera looks steady and doesn't look shaky or handheld, so you can see quite a major difference in the film and the camera movement. Also when we first started film we mostly used the basic camera shots such as pans and we still used this shot in our Thriller to show the axis of the detectives room. In our thriller we used close ups, long shots, two shot to establish the story and characters. We also used specific shots in our film to highlight and show certain props or elements in the film to make the emphasis and show the power or what it has to do with the narrative, for example when the camera pans over the photos and documents, showing what the detective has to work through and that the investigation is carrying on to find the terrorists. I think our knowledge of camera angles have improved majorly from our preliminary, when our camera angles weren't that satisfactory.
Quality of image in our Thriller between the Preliminary is different because in the thriller the picture quality is in high definition, while the preliminary were all filmed in low resolution in my opinion looking like it was filmed on a mobile phone, in our Thriller film we deliberately used low key lighting to give a serious effect of a crime investigation. Also we made sure the composition in the Thriller didn't move around and we made sure we didn't break the 180 degree rule.
When we did our preliminary we did our sound exercise to help use varieties of sound in our film from, sound bridges, on/off screen sound, diegetic and non diegetic. This exercise helped us for our Thriller film, when we used on/off screen sound, for example the phone call, which we hear, and we use soundtrack to build the suspense in the film and make it film like a Thriller.
In our Thriller and Preliminary we made sure the continuity of the film was always the same so we made sure the costume and props in our film was distinctively the same, so if we ever made the continuity wrong we would redo the film to make the continuity the same and not to ruin the film. Also in our film, when we did the editing, we made sure we used match on action, and made sure the composition was the same.
For example in this scene in one of our preliminary film we used match on action when Andrew comes through the door, and so we used continuity also, because nothing has changed, we did the same in our Thriller we made sure nothing changed, also we made sure we didn't break the 180 degree rule then our film look weird and confuse the audience because they will think how did that person move one end to another.
