Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Looking back now, I would say that I have made a dramatic progression from my preliminary task. For our preliminary task we had to use several techniques to prepare for making our film, we were in the same groups for our thrillers and we made a short film, using the 180 degree rule, the match on action shot, shot reverse shot and the over the shoulder shot. I think ours was successful, we kept to the criteria and made it short and snappy. Although it was good practice I feel after getting on with our thrillers, that I developed more through the process of making the thriller than through the creation of our preliminary task. But the experience did inform our thriller as members of our group had poor attendance during the task but brought it together learning from their mistakes, we learned how to work and develop as a group during the task which really showed during the thriller production.
Through analysing the openings of other thriller texts , it allowed me to identify generic thriller conventions in order to plan and develop mise-en-scene in my own thriller including locations, characters, costume, lighting and camera shots.
Our group made many compromises over the story and narrative of our film, as well as the names of characters and the name of the film. After compromising through the shooting, we all decided to edit our own versions so that they could all have our own ideas.
Casting was a steep learning curve, it took a while to find the right actors, several people turning us down but then after finding the right ones it made me realise you need good actors but also reliable ones.
In conclusion, after the preliminary task i had learned a lot, but i thought that i learned a lot more through actually making the film, than what i did preparing for it.
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