Looking back at

your preliminary
task, what do
you feel you
have learnt in
progression from
it to the full
product?

PRE-PRODUCTION:
Location
As a group we understood how
Shot from our preliminary
significant the location and setting of
location
our sequences were, as they would
impact the whole piece. For our
preliminary we chose to film in a shed,
which did not turn out as desired due to
the warm tones the location provided
our shots with. As well as this, the shed
was a very enclosed area, preventing
Shot from the location of
our final product
our desired theme of isolation from
being created. There has been evident
improvement from our preliminary to our final opening
sequence as we took our feedback into consideration and
decided to film in the outside location of Trafalgar Square,
in central London. The natural daylight provided us with
cooler, less saturated coloured shots, alongside ease for
making our character look depicted as isolated as it was
such a huge and busy location.
Time Management
Time management was a major issue for us in our
preliminary task. As a group we underestimated the vast
amount of time need to shoot a two-minute film. We did
not spend as much time and effort on each shot, therefore
they were of a poorer quality and we had less footage of a
bad quality to work with as a result. For example, in our
first preliminary task, we filmed a difficult aerial shot last,
which was not a great idea as it was rushed. If we had
filmed this shot first, we would have been able to have
taken more time and care into it. From this, we learnt that
for when filing our final opening title sequence, we have to
use time efficiently. Filming the time lapses first was an
effective idea as they were twenty-minute long shots,
therefore we used the time of the day where the lighting
would stay constant and didnt do it last minute for the

sake of our actors being restless after a long day of

filming. Finally, we were a lot more sufficient when filming
our final product due to an improved plan on our story
board and filming schedule, stating when each shot should
be filmed and for how long for it made the day of filming
run a lot more smoothly.
Filming
The tripod was a main advantage to the
quality of our filming and shots. On the
whole we decided from watching our
preliminary back that POV shots were
extremely effective in creating a build up of
Preliminary POV shot
tension. Therefore, we had learnt for the
final sequence how to adjust the tripod to
the correct height for the eye line match of
the characters sight. Additionally, in the
preliminary whilst filing the POV shot, we
kept the camera still on the tripod, whereas
whilst filming our final footage we knew that
Final opening title
that does not result in a natural looking
sequence POV shot
shot. Therefore, when we used the POV on
Lucia for example at the top of the steps when turning
around to see her surroundings, we used the pole on the
side of the tripod to smoothly act as her head turning. This
created a clear, smooth shot creating the effect that this
was exactly what Lucia was seeing at the time, as well as
making our piece flow better, also adding to the tension
with the head turn being at a slow pace, highlighting
hesitation and Lucias vulnerability.
The lighting was something we needed to pay attention to
evidently in our final opening title sequence, as it was not
continuous of flowing in our preliminary. In our first
attempt, our shots would jump from dark to light
frequently due to the shots being both interior and
exterior, as well as the effect of the windows inside the
shed Therefore, for our final footage, we decided (other
than the time-lapse) to film our shots in chronological
order as written down on our storyboard because this way,
as we were filming completely outside, the natural lighting
would show a gradual darkening as the day turned into

evening. This effectively created a smoothly flowing, clean

final piece in terms of lighting.

Here demonstrates how our lighting has improved. First two pictures
are the lighting jumps in out first preliminary, in comparison to our
gradual, natural lighting change in our final opening title sequence.

POST-PRODUCTION:
EditingEditing was a high aspect that was clearly improved on
throughout our process of media. From our first
preliminary to our final product, as a group we all
improved and developed editing skills of a good standard
in order to create a more professional product, and also
made our project time efficient. Our editing skills stretched
from basic cropping clips and dragging them down to the
timeline to adjusting sound, lighting, smoother transitions
and a wider range of texts and fonts.
Adjusting sound came in useful for our final opening title
sequence because we were able to merge together two
different sets of music and make the non-diegetic sound
flow effortlessly and subtly into each other. We also found
it useful to lower/mute different sounds in order for our
monologue to be heard clearly in our final product. This
included lowering the diegetic sound of the fountain in our
opening shots and also the sound of the general public,
whereas contrastingly the sound in our preliminary was all
at the same level, resulting in the speech being patchy
and hard to depict at certain points. It did not flow
naturally.

Correcting the colour of our shots worked effectively in our

favour as we were able to brighten up of darken any shot
where there was a lack of continuity, allowing our product
to flow smoothly. As well as this we used the colour wheel
to our advantage in terms of our thriller genre, as we were
able to filter some shots to make them less warm and
saturated and make them have more of a blue and cold
tone to them.
Our transitions were greatly improved from our
preliminary work to our final product. This added to our
level of professionalism, that our preliminary did not
contain. The final transition was a fade to black from our
title ENRAPTURED. This left our product on an ominous
tone fitting in with the suspense and thriller genre, unlike
our preliminary that finished abruptly.

Additionally, we were made increasingly aware of the

snapping tool after learning from our preliminary that our
product had many short black cuts, interrupting the
flowing scenes. The snapping tool enabled us to zoom in
on the timeline and ensure that all the clips were
snapped right next to one another and together to
prevent our final piece from looking clumsy.
Typography was a huge factor in our final product, as we
learnt how vital it could be through our research. Whereas
our preliminary contains no titles, our final piece included
plenty including the director, producer, editor and casts
names in order to highlight the fact it is an opening title
sequence. We learnt how to develop our titles into fitting
out thriller genre ideally, through learning how to increase
the tracking to make the titles image a little bit more
modern, something we wouldnt have been able to
achieve beforehand.