Looking back at our preliminary task I have learnt a lot more on how to handle the camera. For example in our preliminary task we just used the 180° rule. But in our thriller we used tracking shots, and extreme close ups. By using extreme close ups people didn’t know what the actor looked like this would keep the tension high. In our preliminary task we were getting used to using lighting, we benefited from having a preliminary task before our thriller shoot as it gave us experience with the equipment that we are going to be using.
In the preliminary task we had to change job roles to experience what each role consisted of. For our thriller we decided before the shoot day what everyone was doing I was in charge of lighting we had a group decision on what type of lighting we wanted and we chose to use a swing bulb with 6 main light pulsing whilst the bulb was swinging from side to side. This created the effect of a run down room where the bomb was being made.
The preliminary task was set in a class room as we had no chose of location for this but it gave use experience with dealing with difficult rooms to film in for example a class room is small and hard to move around in and has harsh lights. But in our thriller we chose to use our film studio as it was easy to light and you could create anything inside it for example we built a small room which was the room where the bomb was constructed. By using the studio it was easy to light as there was a variety of lights we could use, we also chose to take a tracking shot up Guildford high street which was a complete location change from the class room that we were set to film in our preliminary task.
With our preliminary we didn’t have to plan a shot time table as this was done with in an hour, but when it came to our thriller we had so many shots to do that we had to plan what shot we were going to do over the day and when we broke for lunch. When it came to edit our preliminary task it was very basic with harsh cuts between each frame and not title cards in place. When we edited our thriller we spent a lot more time on getting the sound to go with our shots, we also added title cards to make it look like a trailer for a movie. when we were editing our thriller we got to grips with the use of final cut pro and understood how to use it with little guidance.
The preliminary consisted of digetic sounds this is sound that you can hear in the shot for instant talking when the male character spoke to the female actress. For our thriller we used non digetic sounds this is when we create a sound track or play a sound track to the footage of the film, we thought that non digetic sounds would be more effective in our thriller as it would create tension along with the pulsing lights and extreme close ups on camera, we did this keep our audience on edge. In final cut pro we used layering of sounds so it would crate more tension with in each frame. This would leave the views on edge wondering what is coming next.
With the preliminary we didn’t think about which target audience we were appealing to but in our thriller we tried to widen our target audience as much as possible we did this by using a teddy bear, this would bring in younger children also so we used an attractive male actress which would appeal to older women and we used the original 15-24 year olds. It would also appealed more to a male audience as our preliminary was aimed purely at the 15-24 year olds.
In our thriller most of the shots was based on the building up of tension. this was create by having lots of short Sharpe shots which didn’t show much of the face this would leave views on edge and crate tension alone. We only used on actor as there were no need for another actor. In the opening stages of the trailer we didn’t reveal his face this create tension along with the sounds. We used extreme close ups as this would increase the intensity of the shot.
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