Evaulation - Question 7

Preliminary Match Cut Exercise

Pre-Production

Storyboard

Me talking about planning and production

Post Production


As before with the planning and filming we had a very limited time to edit the prelim, although it was short so it was quicker to edit and add titles. We wasn't too careful when it came to the font of the titles and the actual title of this as we did it very quickly and didn't spend too much time trying to figure out what type of font and a good title. It was vital that we included, a match cut, shot reverse shot and 180 degree rule which we did but when we watched some of the clips back we saw that we had bad lighting in the room we was using and some of the framing of the shots were bad.

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Thriller Film

Storyboard

It is evident that there is a difference between this storyboard and our prelim storyboard, this one is obviously longer. we spent quite a bit of time as a group thinking about where we was going to film and how it was going to being our story across. We also spent alot of time developing our idea, and we had about 3 versions of the one idea, as we changed it to make it better.

In terms of production we spent a lot of time filming as we made alot of mistakes and this was mainly because of poor planning and organisation skills. We started of good but we started to waste a lot of time and things got messy. Lighting was a big issue as we were filming inside and because we filmed at different times each day it differed slightly, we initially thought this wouldn't have been a problem but it turned out to be. We decided to solve this by using dedo lights but it didn't help much as we ended up not using those shots.

Alan was our main editor but I was there assisting him at the beginning and helping out with the sound. It took a lot longer to edit as we had a lot of shots to look  through and pick the right shots also. Alan did a good job editing and we used a lot of match cuts and we used the 180 degree rule. Although there was one shot which was framed badly and there was nothing much we could do about that. The titles were easy to add but we had a little challenge of using the same font as the font we used for the film title wasn't available for the titles so they differed slightly

What have you learnt across both productions?

I have learnt that I have to be much more organised and plan ahead some that time could be used more efficiently and able to produce better quality results. Learning how to use all the different equipment and software was a beneficial and helped us to be able to product a good final product.