Thriller Research Evaluation Question 7

7)Looking at the Preliminary Task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from the
Preliminary Task to full product (opening titles)?

From the Preliminary Task, we have realized what how much continuity matters in making a decent piece, but with the 1st task, we usually filmed a chunk of the 2 minute sequence all in one go, as moat of it involved an interrogation scene in one room. With the full product however, that was almost complete in one day, as we found it was best to get the piece done without breaks, or several day gaps in our daily timetable.
For the final products' sake, we definitely learnt from the preliminary task we we rendered out the piece incorrectly in lower quality.

We learnt the obvious of taking off the microphone on the cameras in order to not record audio during the preliminary task where we were laying around with the equipment; testing what different camera buttons/ switches did e.g. the auto/ manual focusing, shutter speed, viewing of videos menu etc.

With our brilliant idea of using my enthusiasm in creating simple synthesized sound/ tracks, we decided to do a silent thriller with the mic out the cameras to add to the eeriness and scope of the piece, so that anyone can guess it is a thriller by the spooky silence and the thriller-sounding electric piano track.

We have all learnt and done our bit with the editing stage of the products, and have developed an creative concept of when it is right to use hard cuts or fade transitions with the shots, and for what we did in the final product.
*The stuff we have learnt within software like Adobe Premiere is talked about in the Editing Stage blog

In the final product, there isn't as much mise-en-scene as we could of put in, but this is a concept we definitely improved on from the Preliminary, as in the final product, the case is a more obvious focus in the piece, and is the only object in the environment that has any significance (with more planning, we would of created more references in the piece in the settings e.g. more emphasis with wet, dark weather from the windows). The clothing is definitely an contribute towards the whole mise-en-scene as mentioned before in previous blogs, the black and white clothing fits in with the thriller theme.