Looking back at you preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product.
Looking back at our preliminary task, I feel that I have learnt a lot in the progression from it to our final media product. To start with, the planning of our final product was more in depth and complicated because we had to come up with a narrative and work out who was performing each role compared to our preliminary task in which we were given a narrative and no one had a particular role, everyone did a bit of everything. Also with our preliminary task we were given a storyboard, and with our final product task we had to draw out our own storyboard.
With our preliminary task, we planned for approximately one week before the shoot day and edited our product in one week, however, in preparation for our final media product we had 6 weeks to plan before the shoot day and edited for about 3 - 4 weeks afterwards.
I feel that my film making skills have developed a lot since the prelim task. This is because our brief for our prelim consisted of wide, mid and close up shots and in my thriller sequence we were not given any specific shots to shoot. We shot what we felt was right and what we felt fitted with our narrative. In our prelim task we had help from our media teacher to frame the shots and we were assisted almost all the way as this was supposed to be a task to help us learn for our final media product. However, in our Thriller, we had very little help from our media teacher as we knew by now what we had to achieve and how we had to do it.
Our camera work has improved since the prelim task as before we were given a storyboard, which was the same as everyone else doing media in AS at Hurtwood House. However in our Thriller, we used much more sophisticated shots, including tracking shots which are when the camera is mounted on a wheeled platform and pushed on rubber tracks while filming, panning shots, which are when the camera is put on a stationary tripod and moves horizontally left to right and right to left. and tilt shots which are when the camera is put on a stationary tripod and moves vertically up to down and down to up. We were able to put together a rough cut of our prelim task in about ten minutes. However, our final media product took approximately one hour to put together a rough cut. In our prelim task, we used final cut but not to the extent that we used it in our final media product. In our thriller, we used final cut to add the title sequence throughout which listed the names of people involved with either making the thriller or acting in the thriller. In our thriller, we were more concerned about not crossing the 180 degree line, as we wanted our thriller to be as professional as possible.
The sound we used in our basic prelim task was dramatically different to our final media product. In our prelim task, we used dialogue following the storyboards we were given and any other ambient sound whilst recording. In our final media product, we cut out a lot of ambient sound and added in a lot of foley work produced by foley artists using soundtrack pro. For example, the drone sound we used throughout our sequence and the sound used at the end of our sequence when the title appears. This demonstrates sophistication compared to our prelim task when we did not add titles. However, we kept the ambient sound as our actor walked down the spiral stairs as we thought this was very good and fitted with the thriller genre.
In my prelim task, the lighting we used was very basic, we simply had one light bulb and we were not concerned about using any one light. However, in my final media product, we used a range of different lighting including the light bulb, key lights, both on the exterior of Leith Hill and walking down the spiral staircase, we used this to create shadows to make it more like a thriller. Also, we used candles to light our set as we wanted to create more of a thriller atmosphere than in our prelim task.
Looking back at our preliminary task, I feel that I have learnt a lot in the progression from it to our final media product. To start with, the planning of our final product was more in depth and complicated because we had to come up with a narrative and work out who was performing each role compared to our preliminary task in which we were given a narrative and no one had a particular role, everyone did a bit of everything. Also with our preliminary task we were given a storyboard, and with our final product task we had to draw out our own storyboard.
With our preliminary task, we planned for approximately one week before the shoot day and edited our product in one week, however, in preparation for our final media product we had 6 weeks to plan before the shoot day and edited for about 3 - 4 weeks afterwards.
I feel that my film making skills have developed a lot since the prelim task. This is because our brief for our prelim consisted of wide, mid and close up shots and in my thriller sequence we were not given any specific shots to shoot. We shot what we felt was right and what we felt fitted with our narrative. In our prelim task we had help from our media teacher to frame the shots and we were assisted almost all the way as this was supposed to be a task to help us learn for our final media product. However, in our Thriller, we had very little help from our media teacher as we knew by now what we had to achieve and how we had to do it.
Our camera work has improved since the prelim task as before we were given a storyboard, which was the same as everyone else doing media in AS at Hurtwood House. However in our Thriller, we used much more sophisticated shots, including tracking shots which are when the camera is mounted on a wheeled platform and pushed on rubber tracks while filming, panning shots, which are when the camera is put on a stationary tripod and moves horizontally left to right and right to left. and tilt shots which are when the camera is put on a stationary tripod and moves vertically up to down and down to up. We were able to put together a rough cut of our prelim task in about ten minutes. However, our final media product took approximately one hour to put together a rough cut. In our prelim task, we used final cut but not to the extent that we used it in our final media product. In our thriller, we used final cut to add the title sequence throughout which listed the names of people involved with either making the thriller or acting in the thriller. In our thriller, we were more concerned about not crossing the 180 degree line, as we wanted our thriller to be as professional as possible.
The sound we used in our basic prelim task was dramatically different to our final media product. In our prelim task, we used dialogue following the storyboards we were given and any other ambient sound whilst recording. In our final media product, we cut out a lot of ambient sound and added in a lot of foley work produced by foley artists using soundtrack pro. For example, the drone sound we used throughout our sequence and the sound used at the end of our sequence when the title appears. This demonstrates sophistication compared to our prelim task when we did not add titles. However, we kept the ambient sound as our actor walked down the spiral stairs as we thought this was very good and fitted with the thriller genre.
In my prelim task, the lighting we used was very basic, we simply had one light bulb and we were not concerned about using any one light. However, in my final media product, we used a range of different lighting including the light bulb, key lights, both on the exterior of Leith Hill and walking down the spiral staircase, we used this to create shadows to make it more like a thriller. Also, we used candles to light our set as we wanted to create more of a thriller atmosphere than in our prelim task.
This is the basic set of our prelim task. We had one light bulb, one door and one window, which had a blue screen behind. We edited a cityscape on to this screen. We had no props and the floor did not fit with the overall set.
This is a screen grab from my final media product. It is evident that we have props, a different source of lighting, and have added title. Using these technical features, it makes our media product look professional.
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