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What I have learnt between the production of these two tasks

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What I have learnt between the production of these two tasks

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Introduction  Since the process of shooting our preliminary

task in October we have learnt a great deal which has helped to prepare us of the production and filming of out thriller sequence. From beginning this preliminary task as an inexperienced media student I know have a greater knowledge of filming technique and what it really means to produce a successful media product such as a thriller sequence.

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Pre-production introductionOne of the most important aspects of media

of which I now feel I have more understanding of is the process of pre production. I never used to fully comprehend how much planning and hard work went into the making of a film. I really discovered this when we began to plan our thrillers.

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First group meetingAlthough we did discuss the matter of filming

our preliminary task, in general we spent a lot more time actually filming our piece rather than talking about it.

When it came to planning our thriller, we had an official group meeting where we took the original idea which was developed and polished into a more workable idea with contributions from all members of the group.

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Set, props and equipment (prelim)Because our preliminary task was very

simple, we did not really need any elaborate equipment. We filmed in the studio with two actors and no props, although we did include a backdrop which was supposed to resemble the inside of a house.

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Set props and equipment used in thrillerDue to the complex nature of our thriller

sequence, a lot more equipment was needed than in the preliminary task. This taught us the importance of organisation. (having to gather equipment together) and how necessary props and setting are in order to build up suspense.

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Equipment used in thriller

BricksCamera &tripod Baby dollWhite dressCorn syrupWe set our piece in the studio and outside

and inside The Lodge

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Instead of simply choosing an idea and filming it (as I initially thought) we had to all present our ideas to the group and the most popular ones were chosen. This gave us a flavour of the difficult process that takes place in the real world when (if presenting a film idea) the film has to be professionally approved of before you are given time to scrape together enough money and people (etc) to try and create your vision.

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Even after all this hard work your idea could still be easily dismissed. When planning our preliminary task we were given a storyboard which we had to work from. By contrast, for the pre-production of our thrillers, we had to create our own storyboards which involved planning each individual shot in our sequence and the duration of each shot.

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Story boarding

When planning our preliminary task we were given a storyboard which we had to work from. By contrast, for the pre-production of our thrillers, we had to create our own storyboards which involved planning each individual shot in our sequence and the duration of each shot as well as having to draw the images.

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Camera technique My technical knowledge of cameras and how

to use them has improved considerably between the prelim task and thriller production.

Although during the filming of our prelim task we experimented with a few different camera angles and learnt a little about the buttons used on a camera (exposure, zoom etc) things got a lot more complicated when shooting our thriller sequence.

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Use of camera in thrillerWhen shooting our thriller we used many

different camera angles in order to represent the confusion of the main protagonist. We even dared to break the 180 degree rule (a rule which says that the actor/actress isn’t allowed to have his/her back to the camera.)

We also played around with close up shots, differentiating between extreme close ups, close ups, mid shots and wide shots which we did not do to such an extent in our prelim task.

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Editing Prelim task We first came across the programme Final

Cut Pro when editing our prelim task. However, this process only involved selecting our favourite shots which we dragged onto a time line in order to reinforce continuity in our sequence and we didn’t include any special effects.

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Editing thriller In contrast to the prelim task, the editing of our

thriller took up a lot more time. This was owing to the fact that we used special after effects and used opacity, which created a smooth transition between one shot and the next. This was particularly effective with the bricks sequence.

We then learnt how to add in a title sequence, where the names of the director, producer, actors (etc) appeared on the screen. This was done with the use of and after effects programme.