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

Story Board/Planning With our preliminary task we didn’t have enough time to fully sit down

and plan what we wanted to achieve, which I believe was a large downfall to why our preliminary task wasn’t as successful as hoped. So

we learnt from this mistake and made sure that we had completely planned out what our final project was to look like.

This resulted in us creating a story board for our thriller opening because we wanted to see how our ideas were going to look like when

laid out in front of us.

Mistakes in our Preliminary As seen in the picture the door handle is positioned on the left whereas when we used match on action the door handle now appears on the right side of the door.

This error in our filming was due to our group not taking the time before hand to organise locations to film, which lead to us having to change setting mid way through filming.

This was a big fault in the filming of our preliminary, if we took time before hand to prepare the setting we wanted our prelim to be filmed in we would have realized that by having a class change over at 2:15 we were going to be distributed by the other children in school at that time.

Camera ShotsAs this was the first time filming for my group and myself we were unable to use a wide variety of camera shots, in comparison to our final product. In our preliminary we used different shots such as match on action, over the shoulder shot and long shots. After seeing how our preliminary tuned out we were encouraged to look into different type of camera shots we could use for our final cut as we knew it was vital to make our film opening believable and professional.

Match on actionConsists of connecting 2 shots together in which a character finishes off an action in the second shot that was started in the first one, which we performed successfully.

Over the shoulder shotThe perspective or camera angle from the shoulder of another person.

Long ShotUsually a long shot is introduced into establishing shot of the movie which is why we wanted to ensure that it was used immediately.

Improvements in our opening

Long ShotUsually a long shot is introduced into establishing shot of the movie which is why we wanted to ensure that it was used immediately

Close-upShows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a specific detail of mise-en-scène. Everything else is just a blur in the background. This shot magnifies the object and shows the importance of things, be it words written on paper, or the expression on someone's face.

Extreme Close upThe picture is tightly framed and shown at a relatively large scale. An very artificial shot used for dramatic effect.