Here are our two videos of our first Preliminary Task and our final cut of 'Augury', as our film opening.
Firstly, the sound from our Preliminary Task was a very basic sound that we got from the Mac's audio selection. We didn't edit the sound for the task, and kept it simple with only one layer of sound running throughout and only cut it for the dialogue. Whereas the sound for the film opening, was downloaded form a website and we had multilayers playing in various places. Some of the sound was cut out of the audio and some was added on top. we played around with the volumes more to give certain scenes more of a significance. The preliminary task gave us basic experience to give us confidence to play around more with the sound with our final film opening. We also had more time to edit the audio and to adjust it to the way we wanted. The main difference is that we kept the sound very simple for the preliminary task as we had no experience of editing it before, whereas we wanted to experiment with our opening as we knew it would improve it.
The planning stage in the pre-production of our film opening was vital to the execution of our production and post production. This was because the research into genre's helped us to decide which genre we would like to pursue as our own films genre. Through this research we chose the genre of horror. Once we had decided this we then went on to research into the hour genre and decided what were the main generic conventions which we could include in our film. Within this research we conducted a public survey to get an idea of what the public would like to see within a horror film. from this we discovered that blood and scary music was common theme. From this we then decide a narrative for our film and created a storyboard and shot list from that, which we then used during our filming to determine the scenes which we would be shooting, what camera angle/movement we would need and where they would be shot.
The research which we gained was also helpful during the post-production stage of editing as at allowed us to see which order the titles would need to the placed on our film and how long for. This also allowed us to see what order each of our scenes were in relation to the film opening. All of the research and planning we carried our allowed us to run a smooth production and post production as we understood what needed to be done. This was an improvement from our preliminary task as there was hardly any research and planning involved so it was difficult to allow the production and post production to run smoothly as we did not know exactly where and what we needed to film because we has not research into it deep enough.
It cannot be commented on which specific shot we have improved on since our preliminary task was shot differently to our final film opening sequence as, we decided through re-creating the opening of 'Se7en' that we wanted to create something similar to that. This was because this film was of the same genre as what we wanted ours to be and since we decided that, we thought this would hold the audience is suspense in the best way possible. So from our preliminary task which contained tracking shots, high angles, match on actions and point of view shots we transitioned from those into mainly still camera shots at mid shot, long shot and close up.
We have grown far more confident in using the equiptment which we created our film opening sequence with from when we filmed our preliminary task. The camera used for our preliminary task was provided to us by our school media department, however in our final opening sequence we used a group members Cannon DSLR 1200 D camera as this had a clearer picture quality. I do not feel when filming our preliminary task that we would've been confident enough to use such an advanced camera but from completing the preliminary task and our 'Se7en' opening remake, the experience allowed us to be more confident in using more advanced equipment.
Also the skills we have gained through doing our preliminary task and 'Se7en' opening remake through editing not he iMovie software has allowed us to be more confident when using this software for our film film opening. This has proved to be a quick and easy to use editing software. where as before we encountered some issues, which now we no longer encounter, through our previous uses of the software.
The planning stage in the pre-production of our film opening was vital to the execution of our production and post production. This was because the research into genre's helped us to decide which genre we would like to pursue as our own films genre. Through this research we chose the genre of horror. Once we had decided this we then went on to research into the hour genre and decided what were the main generic conventions which we could include in our film. Within this research we conducted a public survey to get an idea of what the public would like to see within a horror film. from this we discovered that blood and scary music was common theme. From this we then decide a narrative for our film and created a storyboard and shot list from that, which we then used during our filming to determine the scenes which we would be shooting, what camera angle/movement we would need and where they would be shot.
It cannot be commented on which specific shot we have improved on since our preliminary task was shot differently to our final film opening sequence as, we decided through re-creating the opening of 'Se7en' that we wanted to create something similar to that. This was because this film was of the same genre as what we wanted ours to be and since we decided that, we thought this would hold the audience is suspense in the best way possible. So from our preliminary task which contained tracking shots, high angles, match on actions and point of view shots we transitioned from those into mainly still camera shots at mid shot, long shot and close up.
We have grown far more confident in using the equiptment which we created our film opening sequence with from when we filmed our preliminary task. The camera used for our preliminary task was provided to us by our school media department, however in our final opening sequence we used a group members Cannon DSLR 1200 D camera as this had a clearer picture quality. I do not feel when filming our preliminary task that we would've been confident enough to use such an advanced camera but from completing the preliminary task and our 'Se7en' opening remake, the experience allowed us to be more confident in using more advanced equipment.
Also the skills we have gained through doing our preliminary task and 'Se7en' opening remake through editing not he iMovie software has allowed us to be more confident when using this software for our film film opening. This has proved to be a quick and easy to use editing software. where as before we encountered some issues, which now we no longer encounter, through our previous uses of the software.
I feel in regards to our previous final films that our final film opening was very successful. This was because we took ideas and skills which we learned from our previous films (mainly from Se7en) and introduced them into the production of our final film opening sequence. Our film fulfils the task of creating the opening 2 minutes of a film as our film runs for exactly 1:56 which is 4 seconds off the goal length. our film opening does not give away the entire narrative and only teases the audience to general ideas. This creates a successful film opening as it allows us to draw the audience in by not giving the story away, allowing them to want to watch more.
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