EVALUATION - Question 7

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Location

Prelim

Thriller Film

Here you can see that we didn't actually put much thought into the idea of the Pre-Lim, It didn't really follow any of the conventions of any Thriller film. We had to work with that we were given so this resulted in our mise-en-scene being of a low standard.

The prelim was filmed in the College's teachers kitchen. However, in our thriller, we made a concious decision on the plot/story of it and decided to follow the most known conventions for a Horror thriller so we filmed the thriller in the colleges Undercroft to fit in with the idea that a lot of horror films included abandoned locations.

Lighting

The lighting in our prelim was fine because of the lighting of the actually kitchen. For our thriller, after discussing it, we thought that the Undercroft would have really bad lighting so we decided to take LED lights with us so the lighting at the location would be better.

Focus

In our prelim, the focus for the majority of the opening was really soft and resulted in making it look really bad, to improve on that. For our thriller film, we manual focused the camera every time we were about to film new footage.

Cinematography

In both openings, we used close ups to try and create tension.

Our shots for both the prelim and thriller opening were really good. From experimenting with some shots in the prelim that we found to our liking, we incorporated those shots into our thriller film.

Rule of 180 degree and placement of characters.

In both the prelim and actual thriller opening, we obeyed the rule of 180 degrees. We made sure that during the post production, the movement of the actors flowed and during production we filmed on only one side so the rule of 180 would not be broken.

We incorporated our knowledge of different shots by including two shots which are normally seen in films.

Props

These are images of the two main characters from each title sequence. In the Prelim, you can see that we could only work with what we could find and had. The only prop we had was a sandwich whilst in the thriller opening we used a large amount of props (i.e. blades, a hammer, fake blood, nails etc) to give the sequence a more tense feel and establish it as a horror thriller film.

Pre-Production

Prelim

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Thriller

In the prelim we followed the storyboard exactly and we didn't like the outcome so we decided that we would follow exactly what we had put down in our storyboard because we may think of better ideas later on which weren't included in the storyboard.

Sound

In our prelim, we only used the diegetic speech of the actresses which we didn't really favour. To improve on this, we used only a edited soundtrack that we altered which increased the tension in our opening rather than creating an anti-climax.

Titles

The Prelim titles were really fast, they were each about two seconds long and the title font was the default font given. Compared to this, we made the title three seconds long so the audience could have enough time to read it and changed the font to one that fitted the concept of a horror film in our thriller opening.

Filming

We found that after planning our prelim, it was quite anti-climatic, it wasn't at all like how we imagined it even though we stuck strictly to our plan. Our prelim made us realise that we need to create a thriller film that would actually appeal to an audience. After using the improvements from our prelim, we improvised certain parts to see how the natural acting would result in and what came out of it was very good, we ended up using some parts of it for the actual opening. (E.G. The dragging scene.)

Overall I have gained knowledge and skill in editing and handling the equipment such as camera tripod, LED light etc. This project also taught me how to use different software which were necessary to this course (i.e. Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion).

Because of this project, I know feel more comfortable filming and feel that I am confident when it comes to editing, especially with editing titles into the sequence.