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7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in theprogression from it to the full product?
The Office and Submerged
From the first typography in our preliminary we learnt
that it is very important in order to convey the genre
of the film. For example in the office it came as an
afterthought whereas, Submerged is used to convey
a drowning sequence the positioning and unaligned
lettering reinforced the sinister aspect, much like
scream for exam le.
In both sequences we used match on action in order to
create varied shot types, and demonstrate further
movement. However with the preliminary we had to
cut much of it out as there was not enough variation,
therefore in Submerged we used short quick clips.
We suffered a few issues incorporating a two shot;
therefore we placed heavy focus on the positioning of
the camera in order to make the two shot effective.
We had the actors closer together and also placed the
camera closer in order to see reactions etc. we used an
exterior shot, avoiding too much distraction and detail,
which we did in theoffice.
We found that the over the shoulder shot worked
quite well for us however there was a few
adjustments needed for example, we would be
focus more on the actor taking out setting. We also
positioned the camera behind most of Megans
head, keeping Lauren in the thirds of the image.
We challenged the conventions from our original
argument scene since our antagonist Lauren was a
female and Megan the victim was not portrayed in
this way, we done this through the appearance and
disappearance of Lauren. Furthermore we used
naturalistic daylight outside as we felt it easier to
manoeuvre and it was not so confined in comparison to
the Office.
IMovie enabled us to crop and ken burns
changes that w3e needed to make however, thissometimes made our reaction shots look
distorted therefore we used more close ups on
the actors enabling us to insert reaction shots
and this is what we placed a focus on in the
variation of shot types.
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7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in theprogression from it to the full product?
We learnt very quickly that there would be a high
possibility of having to re-film, therefore we decided
on a location that would be easily accessible for
everybody, where we could return to multiple times.
Although the location we chose in the preliminary
was a success it, took time to get to and was not
direct enough for everyone involved, therefore we
decided on anequally busy setting locally.
During the editing process we aimed for a more
professional outcome, therefore moving on from
IMovie to Final Cut was a big change in the
production process as we had to learn how to use
the software. We were able to enhance andcontrol sound and image layering it over. This also
helped in the professional finish of the typography
As previously mentions our biggest disappointment
in our preliminary was the sound and voice overs.
Therefore to make sure that we had music
underplaying the action throughout we created our
own piece on Audacity. Nonetheless we did enhance
our knowledge of Garage Band therefore were able
to use it on a wider level making white noise and
voice overs throughout.