Both
of our tasks began with a rule of thirds shot. They help us to focus on the
character and the surroundings within the shot, they help the audience to quickly
understand the situation and what is going to potentially happen in the next couple seconds. I think we have progressed to more interesting rule of third shots throughout this process, the preliminary task featured the shot throughout and opened with it, which was impressive. We also started the opening to our thriller with the shot, however we included much more of the scene and by comparing you can see how we have progressed.
Here we used a wide shot to show the two characters, I think that with our progression we have started to film with more interesting camera angles. In the preliminary we panned the rest of this shot, which looked good, however with the tasks we learnt how to edit better and so in the opening, we edited to show the characters going through the train door. This looked much better, and less amateur. I think without other tasks, our progression would not have been as good and thus we wouldn't have achieved a successful opening.
In
this shot we can compare how far along we have come since the preliminary task.
In the shot of The Job we can hardly see Aaron due to bad lighting. Even though
it was meant to be dark, it was too dark and thus had to lead to us trying to
fix it with contrast in editing. In Station 43 you can see that we picked a good
time of day to film, but it’s also a good shot because of the shadows cast by
the light.
Lastly,
our credits have improved. For the preliminary task we placed all the names at
the end, not making the title stand out. So for Station 43, we made sure the
title stood out and was by itself. All our fonts matched throughout from
the countdown to the ‘6 months earlier’.This gave it a polished look, and looks much better. We also filtered the cast names throughout so that they were not all bundled together, this looked more like other thrillers.
I think that our editing has been quite good from the start;
our whole group grasped the concept of continuous editing and match on action
really well. For example, for the preliminary task we had to come through a
door and show the character both sides of the door to show how we can use match
on action and continuous editing, we did this well and transferred what we
learnt from the preliminary task to our actual opening. The couple went through
train doors in the opening, and I think our editing was best here.
We made sure to follow the 180-degree rule, we did
this in both The Job and Station 43 and thought it was really important to not
mess it up otherwise the audience will feel disorientated and confused about
where the actors are.
Moreover, neither of our tasks show any extreme close ups of the face, I think this would've added tension to the scene however we didn't really think about doing it. I think that it adds mystery to the opening, as the audience don't know how the characters feeling. In The Job we do a reverse shot, we don't do this in our full opening and perhaps it would've worked if we could see the stalker approaching Eryk, although not seeing the stalker adds thrill to the opening.
Moreover, neither of our tasks show any extreme close ups of the face, I think this would've added tension to the scene however we didn't really think about doing it. I think that it adds mystery to the opening, as the audience don't know how the characters feeling. In The Job we do a reverse shot, we don't do this in our full opening and perhaps it would've worked if we could see the stalker approaching Eryk, although not seeing the stalker adds thrill to the opening.
In conclusion, from the preliminary task I have learnt
lot about how to edit and how to continuously edit, it made me realise just how
important it is in a movie to film from different angles to make it look
professional and real; and if you don't use jump cuts in editing it is hard to make it work. We have come along way in terms of filming our product, as we
thought about the process; we learnt it would be a bad idea to film somewhere
really dark as we struggled in the editing process of The Job. Also, our
preliminary task made us aware of what camera shots look good, and made us want
to use the Rule of Thirds throughout our opening.
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