Evaluation Preliminary task.

What we learnt from the preliminary task.
From previously doing a childrens film preliminary task it made it easier for us to understand what we need to ensure of when doing the thriller task. Although we came along some difficulties we learnt from these, and we learnt that we need a more quiet area to film other wise there is too much background noise needed to be edited.In the future we will ensure that the area has minimum amount of noise, so that the dialogue is clearer. We also realised after filming that we needed to have better continuity by making the shots slow, buy not making them cut drastically, for example, close up, jump cut to extreme long shot. When using the lift in our task we found it difficult because it was hard to film without having the doors openeing and closing at the wrong time, but as a group we feel it worked well as it gave a good effect. Also we think that the use of background music which we added when editing gave a better effect as a thriller.

Camera work
Camera work was our main area of focus we tried to use many shots, to create better continuity by using things such as establishing shot, to show the audience the setting and the surroundings, we used reaction shots to emphasise emotion and expression. We used long shots to show everything in the mis-en-scene, we used over the shoulder shots to show the reader the characters point of view and what they are looking at, to make the audience feel more involved and more connection to the narrative. We tried to use high angle shots when looking at the victim to make it seem more vulnerable and show him as being weak, and inferior, and used low angle shots for the other character to show them as being more superior ( powerful, healthy, strong etc). We did not use any movement in our camera work, because we did not make it as if something was moving towards a character, or chasing a character etc. We tried to ensure eye level in our shots.

Mis-en-scene
The costume we used was basic, just to show ordinary characters, no antagonist or protagonist was being shown, mearly the body language is what set to show the victim (michael). The costume was modern although not stereotypical, it also shows the class of the characters, which would help to create realism for the audience. We did not use props as we felt it was not nessacary in our task because the story line was basic, but productive.

Editing
As a group we used basic editing such as background music to create an effect on the audience to make the genre of thriller more clear, also we added a small effect to the dialogue of the victim just to show his struggle to speak, which we wanted to emphasise as much as possible.

Sound
We mainly used diegetic sounds, such as the sound of the doors opening and general background noise and dialogue, we added some non diegetic background music. We muted some diegetic sound because there was too much background noise which was not needed because it made it difficult to hear things such as the noise of the button, dialogue and other general diegetic noises.

Improvements
In the future, if we had time to improve then we would use our time to continue editing things like the sound, and adding special effects to show more of a ''thriller feel'' to the task. Making it more of a mystery, so that the audience would feel they want to continue watching. Also we would try to improve on making the camera shots better and making them flow better so that continuity flows better, as we feel that our coninuity didnt work as well as we had hoped.


Sam and Saffron