(VLOG Script)
When reviewing back at our preliminary task it is
such a good feeling realising how far we have come in such a short time between
the production of our preliminary task and our final film opening. Before we
was using basic, standard shots and editing skills and in our final film
opening we have produced a high-quality film opening that conforms to our
thriller genre codes and conventions.
As a group our mise-en-scene skills have improved
tremendously. In our preliminary task we didn’t really focus on mise-en-scene,
all we focused on was getting different angled shots and putting them together.
However, in our final task we used all elements on mise-en-scene including
costumes, props, settings etc. We was able to improve from the large amount of
research we took out on the thriller genre and film openings. Much analysis
from different films gave us lots of ideas and inspiration to perform in our
film. In our preliminary task we stuck to quite basic angled shots, we used 360
degrees rule, worms eye view, reverse shot and close up shot. We failed to use
match-on-action shots and shot reverse shot. We noticed this though, so when
filming our final film opening we used a wider range of different shots we
found out about during our research. This includes shots such as: extreme close
up, wide shot, over the shoulder shot, point of view shot, extreme close up
shot and many more. Our preliminary task was a great starter for us as it gave
us the opportunity to increase our skills later on in our final film opening.
In our preliminary task we used my macbook and used
the editing software ‘IMovie’. This uses extremely basic transitions which when
editing our preliminary task we believed was very advanced and effective, so
when we upgraded to Final Cut Pro X this was actually much more advanced as
well as much easier to use as well as allowed us to layer the film, music and
voice-over easily as the overlay effects where much easier than IMovie.
We didn’t use any soundtracks in
our preliminary task apart from the diegetic sound in the surroundings of our
shots. We didn’t focus at all on sound in our preliminary task as we was so
focused on the different shots we needed to use so we didn’t research any
soundtracks or dialogue. This again highlights our improvements from our
preliminary task to our final film opening as in our final film opening as in
our final film opening we was able to add two voice-overs and add effects on
them, add a soundtrack and add the bleeping sound at the end of the opening.
In our preliminary task, there was a small amount
of dialogue which we used to tell a short story, however the dialogue used
hermeneutics code as it created slight mystery for the audience as they didn’t
know what the characters meant by this dialogue showing it had a background
story. However, it was still very basic and uninteresting for the audience.
Furthermore, in our final film we researched into different dialogues and
decided to spend a lot of time of the creation of it using mise-en-scene, sound
and editing skills.
Ultimately, in our preliminary
task we only used one location which was our school hallway and a small office
off of the hallway. This was again because we failed to take much research into
different locations. Nether the less, in our final film we was able to
experiment with many different locations in order to find the best one for our
final film opening which we then went onto using a car and a forest for. This
demonstrated our understanding of different locations and how to shoot in
different locations focusing on different terms on lighting and camerawork.
To
conclude, I think it is clearly identifiable how much progress our group has
made in the relatively short space between our preliminary task and our final
film opening. There is even a huge contrast between our first draft film
opening and our last one. I think it was the basicness of our preliminary task
when we realised we was missing so many different codes and conventions of a
thriller that motivated us to take the time to carry out research and produce a
much higher standard product. We worked immensely well together as a group, we
all had our designated roles which allowed up to produce a really good final
product.
