Looking back to my preliminary task I feel I have learnt a lot of techniques when doing the preliminary for preparation for the main task but i have also learnt a lot in the progression when doing the final product when doing the filming and editing for the main task.
When we started planning our thriller film 'scratch' we didn't find it to difficult as we had a head start as we used our preliminary storyboard which we just developed into our main task by adding more ideas. We then started of thinking and planning about the other aspects of the film such as the title and typography which then progressed to be a important part of our thriller with the 'scratching'.
Once we started planning our opening thriller we then started to look at other thriller productions and different directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese which I found quite difficult in relating the films we looked at and our own idea of 'scratch' as it was very different and hard to compare with the quality or the films we looked at to ours. I think looking at smaller independent films would have been more useful but they are hard to find. However i did think the research on the thriller genre such as watching different films such as vertigo and The talented Mr Ripley, and the planning stage did help when doing our main task as it gave us ideas about the different conventions of a thriller production needs to successful. Researching other thriller films also helped to know what to expect from a thriller and gave us an idea of how to portray our thriller for the main task and preliminary as others similar productions have.
When scripting our thriller we found this fairly easy as we planned to not have any speech in the thriller at all. But after actually planning 'scratch' and then starting to film it over a 6 day period we decided to add a bit of dialogue when the woman walked in and said 'your turn' we thought this helps understand the woman's character more and maybe think she may have killed before? To if there was completely no dialogue at all which may have confused the audience to what was actually happening.
When actually filming out main task we had weather conditions that prevented us from filming so we had to change the dates and times for our shooting the schedule. Our shooting schedule was useful as it helped us remember what we needed for the specific filming time. It also helped what shots and what order to film in.
I think our use of specific shot types has improved even though we did find it difficult at times. We needed to show shots that suited the character and how we wanted to show the character to what he was feeling and portraying. I think the preliminary task did help us for the main task in terms of shot use as we did get to show what we had learnt in the preliminary task such as the 180 degree rule and match on action. We also I think have improved on the thought of point of view which we succeeded in the point of view showing the characters and not what the characters see themselves (third person) which
can be achieved and has been achieved. I feel my partner and
I do feel a lot more confident with the equipment and have
progressed a lot from doing the preliminary task as we have
found out more about the cameras, the equipment, found it
quicker and easier to use and different ways to get the
specific shots we wanted.
I think my partner and I have been successful with researching , planning, filming, editing and evaluating our opening of a thriller called 'scratch'. Looking back at the main task and the main planning blog i feel we have explained and research well in to what we Want to achieve for the end product and have succeeded in doing this.
I have found our end product to be successful and feel like my partner and I have met the brief to a good standard. We within the project task have shown our understanding on different shots, planning, scheduling, storyboarding and development and have made a successful opening thriller called 'Scratch'.
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