When we looked back over our preliminary task compared to our final thriller openning product, we noticed that we had made many mistakes and also that quite alot of the filming we actually used was of a poor standard and quality.
One example of this is the storyboard, due to the fact we did not have enough time in which to complete the storyboard for our preliminary task, we were unable to finish it, shown to the right. This meant whilst filming our preliminary task, we had to resort to making some of the filming up as we went along.This therefore, resulted in poor quality shots and lack of variation within them. Due to the incompletion of the storyboard in our preliminary task, we made sure we did not come across this problem whilst completing our thriller opening project. We made sure that before we started any filmning, the whole storyboard was complete and involved a variety of shots and angles within it. This also meant that while we were filming it was a lot easier as we had a step by step picture and word guide of what we wanted the shot tolook like and how to conduct it. Although we tried to stick by the storyboard as much as possible, a few spontaneous shots were added for last minute adjustments and to make the thriller more exciting and effective. This is shown below;Thriller storyboard;
Sound was also one of the major problems we struggled with whilst carrying out our preliminary task. when we edited our preliminary task, we were unable to hear the sound coming from the filmig asd we didn't know how to turn it on. This was a major stumbling block as we just guessed by sight where to cut the footage. This meant when listening to our finished product on youtube of our preliminary task, we realised that through many parts you could hear the director saying 'GO', there was a lack of continuity and also, some of the actual dialogue was cut off so there was no sound!
In order to make sure this did not ake place in our thriller opening we made sure before starting editing we used a computer with functioning speakers. We also learnt how to use the sound from previous peices of footage and continuing them into the next as sound bridges in order to improve the continuity and the overall sound and effect.We also learnt how to use dissolves and fades with our music and shots in order to make the thriller look more flowing and improve the continuity further and also, to give the thriller an overall more exciting and tense effect.
An other example of this was our actualy variety of the use of shots. The quality of our shots was something we felt as a group needed to be improved drastically. In our preliminary task, the camera seemed to jolt alot and also, our two pan shot in the preliminary task didn't seem to run smoothly or too a high standard. Furthermore, in our shot with the two characters walking round the corner towards the locker, you can see the person who is filming's reflection on the window infront. However, we had to include this in our preliminary task as we only took one shot of it because we were rushed for time. In order to overcome these problems we made sure that we filmed the same section of each part of the storyboard several times in order to get the shot perfect and to have a variety of shots to choose from to make the scenes flowed well. We believe since completing our preliminary task on moving on to our thriller opening, our edited skills improved to a high standard. We learnt how to adjust the sound and as mentioned earlier involve fades and dissolves. We were able to explore finalcutexpress and learn more editing techniques and understand the different types of transitions.
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