Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I've developed as film maker through making this thriller a lot with my knowledge of the programmes used with in making or editing the film as well as using the camera's and equipment. Before I started media i had never touched a mac so i learnt how to use the programmes on there as well as learning the technical names and terms that is commonly used in media. I've developed a great amount and continue to as i learn new aspects of media and put my ideas in to practise.

With our prelim we learnt what worked and what didn't. Especially with panning and match on action, we had to learn about timing and the steadiness of the camera when the characters were moving and there was action. We found a weakness would be our lack of knowledge and thinking about the creativity of each shot. So we would need more planning.

I have learnt especially when producing our prelim and thriller opening is the 180^˚ rule, where the camera has to follow the correct way each character is facing.

When learning the continuity of each shot we were warned that a lot of films make the mistake of having a glass on the table or side which is empty then in the next shot it's full, we were taught that to make our prelim's and thriller's more realistic we needed to be aware of our surroundings and or the contents of each scene. We also needed to think ahead just in case we needed something to be in the shot later on. In the image below you see the similarities of the corridors however the camera has been moved and therefore the shot is unrealistic and a fault.

Another technique we learnt was shot-reverse-shot this is used usually when two characters are having a conversation. When filming shot-reverse-shot you film one character looking one way and then you film the second character looking the opposite way so in effect it looks like they are looking at each other. We were successful with shot-reverse-shot in our prelim, when the two girls were having a conversation at the table.

PLANNING

Shot list:

-Extreme close-up's - show character's emotion

-Long shots

-MCU - create tension

-Close up

-Two shot - when the two girls are being watched / the view from the security cameras?

- Cut away - shot of tree's

-Point of view shot - from the angle of the criminal chasing the victims

 

 

Story board:

*still to be scanned in*

The story of our opening is however about two young girls being stalked and kidnapped by this mysterious person. The gender of our stalker is not revealed and keeps the audience guessing. In the opening there will be scenes of the girls trapped in a Victorian house as well as shots of them running through a woody open spaced area. We are also basing the title of our thriller on the house which the girls are abducted to the house is called "Swallow House" as it has a swallow stained glass window.

 

Costume Plans:

We are planning to dress the two girls in modern clothing as this is a up-to-date film and the stalker in a long dark brown/green/black coat and dark wellies or shoes. For the end clip when the girls look like they've been bruised up and their hair are wet and straggly they could be dressed in dark nighties or ripped clothing or their original costumes.