7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to your final product?
Before we made our opening sequence, we had to shoot a preliminary clip, so we could get use to media filming techniques in terms of shots etc. The preliminary task consists of a female character walking across a hall way, opens the door and meets up with another female character as perhaps they are friend, they have a one to one conversation which involves eye contact, and there body posture shows an informal atmosphere they spoke for about 5 seconds and then it shows the first character saying good bye and walking of. In this task we had to demonstrate match on action, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
We had few issues with the editing, because of the way we filmed the clip as we was inexperienced, we did not wait few seconds before we filmed a shot, which if any one notice on the end results, it had a certain words repeating twice, as it was fairly difficult to cut out that scene as it would ruin the whole clip. We took this and learnt from it for when we start filming our actual opening sequence, that we should wait at least a good 3 seconds before we start filming the acting. We had to learn how to set up the equipment and how to use it to bring out different techniques. For example on the tripod stand, where we placed the camera, we had to place it so its fixed on a bubble shown on the tripod so the frame looks straight and not look slant.
Pic 1: This is a match on action, is where a current action is either completed or carried on to the next one. We showed this character opening the door to the next scene. We used this idea in our Rebecca sequence where the protagonists kick the door open with her leg which goes to the next scene where she looks directly at the male character.
Pic 2/3: We used a Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique wherein one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. We used this in our sequence where at the end of the opening we used a shot reverse shot to see the protagonists come in contact with the antagonists.
Pic 4: Despite the difficulties we faced, we went out and filmed a media product, which is clear in its narrative. As a group we gained experience performing our individuals role and as working as part of a team. I learnt better interpersonal skills and time management. The filming was an enjoyable experience, and would not hesitate to work with the same group again filming something different.
As the director, I had to dictate the right emotions we wanted the actress to exhibit. I looked at various inspirations, Kill Bill and Hard candy which both represents the revenge game and also a female protagonist which challenge the thriller conventions. However it was essential to incorporate the things we learnt from the preliminary task to when actually shooting our film. As the director I had to look at the mise en scene from our preliminary task rather than focus on the camera angles as much, although I gave the camera person some insights into the way I wanted the camera angle positioned to bring out the posture or facial expressions of the characters out properly we took things that we learnt whilst doing the preliminary task on board.
As the director I made sure, the actress use the space around her wisely in creating what we ought to create that is a thriller piece. We also took on board some aspects of our preliminary task and made it better once incorporated into our sequence
Pic 5: I decided to make her run from here so that her character is introduced. This also worked well with the establishing shot camera technique we decided to use.
Pic 6: Special effects were important to our sequence so the continuity was not broken, because it was difficult linking both the subway tunnel scene and the bridge scene. However the editor used this blurred effects to join the two together which worked really well as a sudden transition to the next scene.
Pic 7/8: I directed the actress to kick the door in this shot really aggressively here as it builds up the transformation of her real personality which has been disguised by her bewildered run. When observing the preliminary task the Female character walked out of the door, she walked further to meet the second character she talks to, however I wanted to do something a little bit different here in relation to our Rebecca sequence where her first attempt to open the door was unsuccessful, meaning her second attempt must be on target, in the sense that after her second attempt to open the door and she gets through, she would'nt have to walk through perhaps another hall way in the building we will just see her kick the door open and see the antagonists immediately.
Pic 9: I wanted the camera person to focus on the phone here, as it plays a key part in the 90 minute synopsis. This evokes a commentary between viewers perceiving that the antagonists had a narrow escape. For this scene we used the blue screen technology simply meaning a technique that is referred to as colour keying, colour-separation overlay. We input an artificial background so that we could be creative on how we wanted the graphical background to look like.
The preliminary task ended vaguely we took that on board and did not want to replicate this idea on our real sequence, therefore. I wanted a voice on the end of the phone as if someone answered Toms call. My voice was used to create this aspect. This again creates a second attempt of narrow escape.
Overall I have learnt a lot as my position as the director. It has made me realise that to be a real director you need to be committed creative and have a passion for the role. I also learnt that each different filming role should be able to influence the other when needed for example, the director telling the editor what shots should be joined together as it would work better. Which I did that with my group. Also realised each role is as significant as anything else. I also learnt the idea of planning out research before you make the end product, because at times we had to joggle the two together where we would still be planning and doing research on particular things whilst going out to film, which slows things down. Overall it was an enjoyable experience taking part in this production and module.
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