The quality of my finished film has improved much more than my preliminary task, the first shots of both of these are establishing shots to establish the location of the scene. In my preliminary task the camera was very shaky and didn't necessarily create tension throughout the opening and set the eerie mood. From this, I have learnt how to create a more effective opening that sets the mood and is necessary for our opening. In my preliminary task, the establishing shot didn't look interesting and appeared as plain. In our finished production, we deliberately shook the camera in order to create a distorted feel to the movie, to forebode a great evil. The preliminary task opening also looks boring and will not appeal to my target audience due to this issue, We took this into consideration, and added an element that would grab my target audiences attention. We used an effect that would add to the scary theme of the film, as it was dark and created suspense and the audience couldn't make out where the area was as it was distorted.
Our over the shoulder shot was also much more stable and effective, as we could see what the character is doing, however in the preliminary task shot, the use of the over the shoulder shot wasn't effective and didn't show anything.
We also learnt about different camera shots, angles and movements and bettered our understanding of the equipment in general. We didn't use basic shots like medium close ups, but instead we used more complex shots that are more effective, for example this crane shot that made the character like vulnerable and victim like as the camera came from above, and looked like it was cowering over the character.
Improvements
- Worked with a script
- Calculated our shots and took practice shots until we got the shots perfect in our final film, our prelim task helped us do this, as we didn't calculate the shots properly there, so we took this into consideration while doing our main task.
- Arranged our cast and crew
- Varied the use of shots, angles and movements
Understanding DSLR:
We read the manual before using the camera in order to completely understand the camera, however in the preliminary task, we didn't really know how to use the camera. We read the manual in order to know how to zoom in, as in our preliminary task, we couldn't adjust the camera to zoom in, therefore limiting the variety of shots we could use. Every time we referred to the manual in the main task, we learnt something new. We also learnt about the lighting and scene, which we used in order to create a high quality final film, we didn't use this at all in the prelim task, and only used the default settings as we didn't know about the other settings.
A very proficient response, with very good consideration of the areas you feel you have made progression in.
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