TASK 7

Our Thriller and our Preliminary Task we did at the very beginning of are vastly different. The first difference between the two is that in the preliminary task we were allowed to pick our groups whereas for our thriller we had a groups delegated to us which was a massive challenge seeing as we were all very different people and had tendency to argue about our ideas, in the long run it was beneficial because we all matured and became more patient with one an other. Because we all had such different personalities our ideas and thoughts were very different so this benefited the thriller as a whole.

For our preliminary tasks we got given a storyboard which we had to follow so we had to take the camera shots that were given on the storyboard, however for our thriller we created our own storyboard this then made the thriller much more of a challenge then our prelim task because we called the shots. Deciding which camera shots we would take and how our thriller would be structured.

In our preliminary task we used a very limited amount of shots including medium wide shots, wide shots and close ups. There was no noticeable high or low angle shots within our prelim so it is very noticeable that our thriller camera work is much more complicated because we have a much wider variety of camera shots.

Another difference between our prelim and our thriller is the difference in the importance of the Mise-en-scene. In our preliminary task the Mise-en-scene was very basic. An example of this is for our prelim we only used natural and no artificial lighting whereas in our thriller we used LED lights, Red heads and light reflectors to create the perfect lighting state. For our prelim we only had one lesson to film in whereas for a thriller we had a whole day. This is evident in our prelim because it appears rushed and not organized. This is the same for our for our prelim we only had 2 lessons to edit whereas for our thriller we had 3 weeks. Another difference is that our thriller shows how much preparation and work has gone into creating it whereas our prelim shows there was little preparation and work spent on researching and planning.

 

Undoubtedly our editing for our thriller was better than our prelim. Initially because we had more time to edit our thriller then our prelim. Another reason is that when we were editing our prelim it was the first time we were using Final Cut Pro, so it was a learning process so when it came to editing our thriller we were more experienced and familiar with the program. I found that with our thriller we were able to make smoother transitions between shots but the biggest difference between the two is that in our thriller we were able to use special effects making a sizeable difference. The sound for our prelim task was of very low quality, with some sounds much louder than others and some, which contained our group speaking behind the scenes. For our thriller we were able include sound effects using sound track pro and both pan and compress sounds to make sure they were at an even volume.