Progression from the Preliminary Task

We have progressed a lot since the preliminary task. The preliminary helped us as we learnt some thing on what looks better and what not to do. It helped us to see how long a piece of film would take to shoot and plan as well as edit and finalise all in time to meet a deadline. 

When looking at the final piece in detail I realised how important the voice over of the curse is to the media product. It helps to build up tension through the short, fast jump cuts at the beginning to the action that we do not get to see towards the end. I tried different ways of saying the curse to find out what would be more affective and then came to a conclusion that whispering it would give more of a spooky feeling to all of the clips as what you could see matched the terror of what you could also hear. 

We never actually included shoulder shots in our final final piece, but in our first idea that we did film they were used in that. It was a conversation between two school girls between a skeleton talking about the same curse. The 180 degree rule was used and worked successfully as well as making sure that the shots from over the shoulder were edited well and flowed to show the conversation was happening naturally. This actually worked out very well and looked better than the conversation that was taken place in the preliminary task. 

During the preliminary task, one thing that i learnt was to check what could be seen in the shot before shooting and not filming enough. So that when you came to editing, if a shot was of bad quality or not exactly how you wanted it, if you had not filmed it a numerous amount of times you would have to just go with that one shot and it brought down the rest of the film. So therefore when filming for the opening sequence we made sure that we filmed every little piece of shot from every angle at least 3 times or more so we had a choice of clips to choose from when it came to editing.