Media Evalulation Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The prelimary task want well as it gave us a brief taste of what filming would actually be like. We did the lighting and 180 dgree rule well and we got an idea that could be done with the things we were told we had to include. We also edited the prelim together well as we made a effective sequence that had continuity and good music but we could have done the titles a bit better. However, we got some things that didn't work out which included the framing as we chopped off some of our actors head off, the music could have been put in better and the titles could have been better thought of and then place in a better way.

Example of bad framing 

I have developed as a film maker as I can now do some shots better then I did them in the prelim. The strengths of the prelim was stcking to the 180 degree rule, match on action and continuity. The weaknesses of the prelim was acurate framing as we chopped off one of our actors head in a lot of shots, putting titles in a good place, panning and moving the camera so it would follow the actors movements properly. 

Example of 180 degree rule



Example of better framing

Example of better titles

We addressed these problems from the prelim in the thriller opening by making sure we had a good shotlist and followed it exactly, getting a good storyboard that acurately matched the opening, using the tripod more acurately when tracking the actors movements, having the actor slow down a bit so we could follow their movements with the camera and moving/placing the camera so it wouldn’t chop the head off of the actor.


Some specific skills I developed on was continuity. I did this by making sure each shot followed the previous shot well and the actor didn’t suddenly jump to a new place without explanation. Another skill I developed was the 180 degree rule. I stuck to this rule very well in theprelim and continued to do the same thing in the opening. We didn’t use shot reverse-shot in the opening as we didn’t have any dialect and shot reserse-shot is very helpful when shooting a conversation as it gives the diea of two people talking very well. Another skill I developed on was match on action. Match on action was very useful to use as it made it look like the actor was walking around the shack like they would have done off camera. We did this well in both the prelim and the thriller opening as match on action fits in with continuity and I did that well as the shot looked wrong if you did it badly.

Overall the opening was quite successfuul as it built up tension and it flowed well. I would have done a few things different like when the cloth is dropping out of her hand after the reaction shot I would have just left in the reaction shot.