Thursday, 17 March 2011

Task 7 - Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the Progression from it to full Product? (includes Preliminary Task & video)

Before we were to shoot our final thriller clip, we had to shoot a preliminary video. We were given a storyboard and were told we had to more or less stick to it. Our scene contained two actors in a scenario when actor B had to do something he/she didn't want to do. This was the story board:








We casted two guys who we found around school. We tried to make the story slightly more interesting by adding in a mobile phone to the scene and also making it slightly more modern. we filmed our preliminary task in the film studio, which was assigned to us. It was a useful location as there was enough props and lighting for us to make it seem slightly more interesting. We had a a white corner, two chairs, a mobile phone, desks, folders and a door which became very useful as it made it seem more realistic then it would have done. This is our Preliminary task finished:



We have now finished our thriller and looking back at the preliminary task it seems much more professional then the preliminary task. I think that the premiminary task was vital as it made everybody feel much more comfortable with using cameras and their editing skills become much stronger. If we had not done the preliminary task our thriller would have been much worse and if we were to do another video it would be much better than our thriller. We were also given much more freedom and we were told we had to to a thriller and/or horror whereas with the preliminary task we were pretty much told what to do and how to do it.
The main task was easier because of the fact we had more freedom as we were not entirely restricted. However the main task was more complicated because there was more stress and pressure as we knew there were certain expectations.
We had a much larger variety of shots in our main video as we were more experienced.
Our background was much better in our main as it was set up in a much more controlled way. We also had more skills with editing, so were able to put in different sounds, such as music that we had created which.
I thought that our preliminary task would end up being much more successful than it was, but I think due to our lack of experience we were not able to make it as professional as we wanted.




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