Evaluation: Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convention?

Final Product: Glimpse Productions- Insanity

Evaluation: Q7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation: Question 7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The preliminary task was beneficial for the my group as it helped us experiment with the technologies and equipment. The reason for the preliminary task was that it would help my group understand how to use technologies when filming our thriller opening sequence. This is important as if there is n't a preliminary task our group wouldn't be able to know how to use the technologies and equipment's, in order to film our thriller opening sequence. The story of the preliminary was about two young teenagers planning out their date in a place where nobody is. The whole point of this preliminary task is to compare  and see what we have improved on with the thriller opening sequence. This means that the preliminary task is able to be identified at what needs to be improved on in order for the group and i to avoid any mistakes we have done in the preliminary.  The aim of a preliminary task was to see how we could create a a high standard thriller opening sequence by discovering and experimenting equipment that will be needed when creating a thriller movie.

When doing the preliminary task I am now more confident with the terms of filming and editing. The reason why I feel as if I am confident doing the preliminary task is because my group and I have built an understanding of different technologies that are used in a movie. This is beneficial as  my group understand what we should avoid and what we will need to improve when creating a thriller film.

What I am confident doing in terms of filming and editing:

Filming-  In the preliminary task we have learnt how to frame different shots. This was beneficial for the group and I as now we are comfortable to include different shots in the thriller opening sequence. For example this shot is a over-the-shoulder shot. This is conventional to a thriller film because the audience wants to see what the professor is looking at.





Editing-  In the final product I am confident with avoiding any basic editing and making sure that there are transitions that will make the thriller look better. We have learnt that our preliminary task had basic editing. We made sure that we was comfortable and able to use Final Cut Pro X in order to use transitions efficiently in the thriller film. We have used one of the transitions, white to fade colour to represent flashbacks. This had fit perfectly for our film as we needed this transition to represent the past of the character, Ivy.


                               
Filming- When experimenting with equipment for our preliminary task, I am now more comfortable with using the equipment such as the cameras and tri-pod. In our final product we understood how to operate the camera properly and also knew how to use the tri-pod efficiently.

Editing- In the final product we have edited the lighting to make the thriller film  look more realistic. I am more comfortable with creating a dark lighting. This will be conventional to a thriller film as it is expected that there is a character that look more scary. For example Ivy.

Comparing the preliminary task to the final product we have changed significantly. As you can see the preliminary task the shot size was accurate but there was a lot of unwanted space. I know this as the audience will not be concentrating on the two people and instead will be looking at the unwanted space. This was irrelevant to the scene. My group and I made sure that we have avoided this situation in the final production. On the right you can see that the shot being framed at the character (Ivy). You can see that space is balanced out, this means that the character will be more focused.

Comparing the preliminary task to the final production my group and I  have changed at editing. In the preliminary task you see how our lighting and effects was basic. The reason for this was that we wasn't confident in using the Final Cut Pro X. But if you look to your right you will see a huge difference in editing. We made sure that we include effects and low lighting in order for the movie to look scary. This is conventional to a thriller film as it is expected that a thriller genre should contain effects in order for it to look scary.




Comparing the preliminary task to the final product you will see how we have changed in camera positioning. If you look to your left you will see that in our preliminary task the acting on and actions on camera  did not look professional as the characters was waiting while the camera was being recorded. On the right you can see that the final production, the acting of the character was being recorded showing it was unexpectedly.

Personal reflection

I believe that my group and I finial production was successful. We know this because we have done our secondary and primary research in order to know how to create a successful movie. We made sure that our audience was attracted by our thriller opening sequence. We have included what was appropriate in order for our viewers to continue watching the final production. By making sure that the thriller movie would be professional we had to make sure we use professional technologies such as Final Cut Pro X. As a group we made sure that we all had a group role that we stick to in order to create a successful movie and also to make sure nothing goes wrong. We made sure that we had a planning and research in order to create a professional thriller movie. Over all my group and I have made sure we have the correct thriller conventions in order for the audience to continue watching the thriller opening sequence.
What I have enjoyed the most was being the make-up artist. I have chosen this role because I was able to represent the character through the make-up. I have enjoyed this because it was very practical and was able to experiment make-up. This was conventional to a thriller film as the audience are expecting the make-up to represent the character. For example the character Lara make-up made her look very tired, which represents that she is in a metal institution .
I have also enjoyed doing the preliminary task. This is because the task was very practical and new for me. The reason why I  have enjoyed it was because I was acting. This is something out of my comfort zone. This is also the reason why I have enjoyed it because I tried out something new. Also the preliminary task helped me understand what is expected when creating the thriller production.
I have felt as what could of been improved in our thriller production was that there wasn't any action. Also what could of been improved on was the camera movements wasn't at high standards. What I also felt that could of been improved was there could of been a perspective for the antagonist, as she wasn't represented properly.