Evaluation 7; Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?

When looking back at our preliminary task then watching our finished thriller beginning, I can see that we have made major improvements. I feel that we have made improvements in all areas of the products.

Sound;

In our preliminary task we had a lot of unwanted sound/noises. For example one of the people in the crowd we used was saying something about what he was doing in this piece, and we did not want any other sound than footsteps, however at this point of the course we did not know all the things that we were able to do on the final cut express program. However in our thriller we knew more about final cut express and its abilities so we were able to get rid of any unwanted sound. Also our thriller seems more professional as it contains a soundtrack.

Continuity;

We have had problems with continuity in both the prelim. task and our thriller. However our preliminary tasks continuity error could have been sorted if we had thought more into it and possibly chose a different clip that we had shot, so it ran more smoothly. However in our thriller it is only a small error where we had to attempt to make the clip we had shorter as it was rather boring when the full lengthed version. But as of her head being in a slightly different position to the end of where it was last cut we were unable to do anything about it.
The following images are the shots which show our continuity errors;

In our preliminary task, although we have used different shots the actress is in different positions.

In Our thriller we used the same shot but when editing her head was in different positions to what we were hoping for.

Shots;

We used many different types of shots in our thriller compared to our preliminary task. Although we used a small range of different shots in our preliminary task we used a larger range of interesting shots in our thriller, such as placing the camera on the floor and allowing our actress to walk over it, or having the actress looking into the camera as if it was her mirror. I think using shots like these makes the thriller seem more interesting as it is creative and gives the audience something a bit more to imagine other than just watching usual midshots, which is what our preliminary task mainly had.

Transitions;

In our preliminary task we had no transitions which shows automatically what we learnt during the time of making our thriller. We included in our film, fades and dissolves which were the main video transitions, we also created a sound bridge linking one clip to another.

Effects;

We used effects on the beginning of our thriller opening to make the imagary seem older than the rest of the film, which is another thing that we had learned as no effects were used in the preliminary exercise. We did this by changing the brightness and contrast of each clip.

Titles and Ident;

In the preliminary task we had no titles and no production company ident. These were used in our thriller opening making it look more professional. We overlayed the titles over the footage which also made it seem as if it was professional.

The following is the two finished products;