7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Quality of holding a shot steady? This time a round we were prepared with equipment bringing in a tripod on the days we had to film, this eliminated the problem of unsteady shots that we had before. And this time rather than last we re-shot certain scenes making sure we got the desired results.

Quality of the framing shots? Like we said we would improve on as a group, we in our final product used a much broader range of framing shots and with better precision so that our audience would feel the professionalism and make the meaning of people or objects we filmed significant in our film an example of this was the panning shot used and low angle shown below.

Quality of shooting material appropriate to the task set? We believe that our film was much clearer in setting the genre and story than in our preliminary task and that the audience got a better idea of what we were trying to acheive. In our editing we were sure to cut out all footage that wasn't significant in our opening two minutes, this is as we wanted to follow the conventions of our genre "thriller" films and replicate similar things that they do.

Quality of mise en scene- While our mise en scene in the preliminary was lacking, basic and failed to show any significance concerning the story our final product was carefully thought out, taking into account costume, lighting and props. The phone used in many of our scenes in the final product was key in creating an image that the characters were very modern and technologically adept and wearing suits made them authorative and important something accomplished in the final product while not shown i the preliminary. An example of the costume and lighting in our final product can be seen below.







Quality of editing so that meaning is apparent to viewer? Editing was used very lightly in the preliminary task and for very little reason such as something didn't look that good and so it was cut out whereas in the final product we edited to cut the time, add credits and to make the meaning of our two minutes apparent to our audience by focusing purely on our main to characters, something not fully done in our draft final product but done in our real one.

Quality of using sound with images and editing appropriate for the task set? While no music was used in our preliminary and the only sound we used was dialogue, this was greatly worked upon in our final product as we included music which would play as non diegetic sound acting as a sound bridge for the entire two minutes which created a tense atmosphere needed to set up our genre, this was not included in the preliminary though.


Quality of positioning and movement of actors? While the actors movement remained casual throughout the preliminary with no actual purpose to their movement we took all of this into account in our final product. We would position the actors in the centre of the frame accompanied by close ups to stress the significance of them being main characters in our film to the audience. We would also make their movements fit the character, something we never thought of during our preliminary. This meant the movement, mannerisms and actions of our main two characters would be that of someone serious, trying to accomplish a job and at the sane time acting authorative.




Quality of group planning, meeting targets, organisation? All targets were met with both the preliminary and final product, while more work went into the final product as by then we had a script, schedule and a vision to how our film would look to others. When we sets dates for filming they were met and we got all the footage we needed.

Group dynamics? We worked very well together as we did in our preliminary making sure the entire group were comfortable and ready for filming on all occasions. We were also very patient with eachother making sure we re shot anything we thought we could do better. It was a two way operation as we both gave ideas and advice to eachother on how our film could be better.