Question 7

As a film maker, I have developed many skills from my prelim final task.

The specific skills we have developed for filming includes sticking to the 180 degree rule and not changing it as it would flip the sides and make the shot look really messy. We never went past 180 degrees even in some difficult shots such as small compact rooms (the bathroom.)  We stuck with continuity editing as a whole as we showed the shots in the correct order and made sure that the main character in the shots flowed smoothly e.g. when walking down the stairs and not have jump cuts very often.

The shot of the tap as we could see our reflection on the metal when we filmed the shot. This is because it ruins the shot as the audience can see the camera in the shot making it unrealistic. This could have been improved by changing the angle of the shot so the camera isn’t visible when filmed.

 

 

 

 

 

Another part that didn’t work so well was the fact that the protagonist didn’t look at the camera very much. This is a problem because it doesn’t engage the audience well as they feel they aren’t in the film but just watching the film like any other they have watched and doesn’t look too realistic.

 

 

 

 

The prelim title was edited on the‘ Macs’. The title is very  minimalistic in the way its presented.We have made our own title using a mix of online websites and Photoshop. We have made it red to connect to the devil and evil and I used the rubber too on Photoshop to make looks to be scratch marks on the text. This isn't shown to be normal and shows danger towards the audience since the scratch marks connote violence of an inhuman.

 

The main strengths of the thriller are that it is realistic as it links to everyday life of ordinary people in their morning routine as they wake up and have breakfast. Also the camera shots flow very smoothly together using continuity editing throughout the introduction.

 

The main weaknesses of our thriller are that the protagonist doesn’t fully engage the audience during the different shots as he doesn’t look directly at the camera and doesn’t show much of a thriller to start off with as his facial expressions, posture and gesture could have been improved.