I feel that the progression from the preliminary task to our thriller film is vast, not only our techniques and skill used, but also the confidence in ourselves in which we needed to complete the film.
Firstly, the planning and preparation for our preliminary task was little. We were given a morning to film a short sequence which was shown to us through a storyboard. We did not need to plan our setting, or the camera and lights. This is a huge contrast to our thriller, where much of the term was occupied by finding locations, and preparing sets. We knew that we wanted a butcher for the establishing shots, therefore we researched on the internet places which were near by, after many rejections, we finally found a place in Godalming. Once this was done, we decided what our studio would look like, which we based on the story board that we had previously drawn to help with the planning. Our shooting day was planned out in much depth, we knew what we were doing at all parts of the day. This shows how the planning of the preliminary task was so basic and simple, but much more responsibility was put on us for our main task, therefore we took control and prepared it fully to gain the best outcome.
We were only shown easy shots, such as close up, wide shots etc in our preliminary task, but in the main task we could choose what shots best represented our genre, and I feel that our shots achieved this. In the preliminary task we settled with dialogue to tell the story, because our knowledge of shots were little. However, we had no dialogue in our main task, therefore the story telling was done through the sophisticated shots, such as:
This low angle shot represent his power and controlling manner. We also decided to use a close up low angle shot to really show his evil expression on his face, which again is an aim of the film, to show the actors bad side. The rest of the screen being dark shows how evil the film is meant to be, this is a contrast with our prelim task:
A shot of a gun should be scary and mysterious, however because of our lack of knowledge, it does not have this effect as the rest of the screen in bright, therefore to an audience is it not scary. This is a contrast with the shot on the right, from our main task, where we purposely only used a hanging light so the rest of the screen would be dark, to create a tense, scary atmosphere. We used lots of different shots, which were all picked out and chosen to show something, for example, lots of close up shots of the meat, to show the gore and blood which will hopefully disgust the audience:
The use of sound has developed greatly. We used no sound when editing the preliminary task, everything heard was filmed. However, in our main task, we kept the sounds heard when filming, however we enhanced these sounds by finding more on "Sound Track Pro." For example, when cutting the meat, sounds of "velcro" was heard quietly to repulse the audience further. Not only this, but also a soundtrack was added to create suspense. For example, when the meat was being cut the sound of a "heart beat" played quietly, as well as dark, mysterious music, to create an eerie, evil atmosphere.
Only a small amount of editing was done on the preliminary task. We were taught how to create bins and put the most important shots from the rush into the bin. However, the skill used was very little, they were not smooth:
This improved greatly towards doing the main task. This is shown through the smooth cuts we were able to get in our thriller, for example, from long shots to close ups, or when the character is taking off his jacket. Our knowledge of "Final cut pro" improved also, because we were able to edit with little help from our teachers, and put our own edge of the editing, depending on what kind of atmosphere we wanted to create.
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