Prelim vs Thriller

The prelim task that we did at the start of the year and the thriller we have just done now are both very different. Firstly you can easily tell that the prelim task is very simple compared to our thriller. This is because in our prelim task we used very simple shots such as medium wide, wide and close ups. There didn’t seem to be any extremely noticeable high or low angles therefore its easy to say that in our thriller the camera work was much more effective because we used a wider variety of different shots which just made our thriller more effective.

                   

Simple shots were used like close-ups and medium wide angels, the prelims didn’t have as much variety as our thrillers.

Once again our mise-en-scene was very basic in our prelim compared to our thriller but this is only because for our thriller we spent weeks planning in order to get it perfect. In our prelim task we only had a day from where I remember our group went from a very complicated idea to running out of time and using a car we found in the parking lot. Although I cant say that this was a bad idea, it did portray the message that we wanted across but in our thriller we were just able to make it more effective. For our thriller it was handled completely differently. We had to make our actors look like they were from the 1940's this involved a lot research into that era as well as finding the typical costumes of a noir style film. The props that we had in our thriller also would have to represent this era and much time was put into researching the appropriate props and finding them around the school and looking at home. The set was another thing that had to be carefully planned. We had to look at many different films, website and pictures to find the ideal office for our detective and of course one that we were capable of producing. Last thing was lighting, in our prelim we didn't have any, we did it outside in the natural daylight. For our thriller we had to have certain lights to make sure you could clearly see out actors faces, around the room and to create the shutter light effect for the window.

I would definitely say that the editing in our thriller was much more effective than when we did our prelim. Firstly because we had a lot more time then in to edit our thriller but I think mainly it was because when we were editing our prelims it was our first time using final cut pro, we were only learning about it. When we edited our thrillers we were more familiar with the program and it was easier for us to do the simple tasks. I found that this time we were able to link the shots together in a more effective and faster way but the real difference this time to our editing was that this time we were able to use special effects and this really made a massive difference. In our prelim task the quality of sound also wasn’t very good, some sounds were louder than others and we had some spill of us talking. In our thriller task we were able to add sound effects and edit this in a way that all sounds were even, panned out to both ears and use compression to make sure that some sounds were not much louder than others.

Editing the prelim task and editing the thriller in terms of working together as a team I found completely different. I didn’t have the same group when editing my thriller but I felt that when editing the prelim it was a lot less stressful but I think that because there wasn’t a big final grade relying on it. Also in the prelim tasks we got to choose our groups so generally everybody went with the people that they got on well with. When editing the thriller this was completely different because the groups were randomly picked and I found that especially in our group we had certain views on how our end product should look like and this sometimes lead to a bit of discussion