Thursday, 24 April 2014
My Finished Thriller - Animus
This is the final cut of my thriller opening, Animus.
Hope you enjoy it!
Friday, 4 April 2014
Evaluation Question 7 - "Looking back at the Preliminary task, what do you think you have learned in the process from it?"
Preliminary Task vs. Final Cut
I have learnt so many
techniques in order to better the quality of videos, knowing how different
factors such as camera handling, locations used, usage of sound and mise en
scene and a good storyline can effect the outcome of a media text.
Camera Handling
The camera handling was
good in both the preliminary and the final cut as we used a tripod to steady
the camera while taking shots although as we rushed through the filming during
the preliminary task, not taking time to take more takes of each shot; some of
the shots appear uneven with some tilting diagonally when compared to the final
cut. Most of the shots used in the
preliminary task were simple shot/reverse shots and didn’t give much of a drive
to the storyline.
Also, the amount of
camera angle shots used in the preliminary task was very limited, over the course
I started to realise how using camera angles can enhance the effective of the
shot and started to use them more in subsequent clips.
Location
I also realised that
thrillers often use multiple urban locations to enhance the storyline by
creating this real idea of chase through these multiple locations. Not knowing
where the protagonist next in this adventure, give viewers a sense of tension
and suspense throughout the film.
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| We used multiple urban location to enhance this idea of a chance between the protagonist and antagonist |
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| We only restricted ourselves to using one location for our preliminary. |
We made sure when
filming the final cut that this would happen as in the preliminary we only
focused the action at one location which made it hard to keep up the tension
and suspense thrillers are known for.
Sound
During the course, I
also learnt how diegetic and non-diegetic sounds could be used to force certain
emotions out of the viewers when watching certain scenes. In our preliminary
task, there was only one piece of non-diegetic music but this is barely
noticeable whereas there are several pieces of non-diegetic music to stimulate
the crowd.
Mise En Scene
We also learnt that
using mise en scene is also a good way of getting viewers to identify the
characters within the film. The costumes, make-up and props used within the
media text can be vital in gripping viewers into watching our opening.
In the preliminary, we
didn’t not really focus on that much on these things and that affected the
storyline drastically as it was really hard to realise who was who in the
storyline. Like the police officer
is hardly wearing clothes that suggest he is a character of power and
importance.
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| The protagonist looks more relatable |
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| This character hardly looks like a policeman, does he? |
But, in the final cut,
we focused more on this making each character wear certain costumes to make it
easier to identify factors such as the character’s status, class and power. For example the protagonist is the
typical ‘everyman’, causally dressing whereas the antagonists are dressed in
formal attire, suggesting their serious and smart nature over the protagonist.
Story-line
The story-line used in
the preliminary task was good at first but was poorly executed. After watching
and researching several thrillers, I learnt bout several conventions that make
thrillers so famous such as the usage of macguffins and enigma codes, in the
final cut; I made sure that these conventions were implemented into it.
Thursday, 3 April 2014
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