Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Over the past few months, i feel that i have learnt a lot about the media industry and how the audience reacts to different things that occur in a film. First of all in our thriller opening i learnt how to create music in Garageband.

Garageband

To make our music was three simple tasks, the print screen shots below show this. To begin with, we had to open a new file so that we could add the music into garageband (we named it song 7 as it didn't really need a specific title). Secondly. we added the music that i downloaded from Youtube 'evil noise'. Eventually we found a backing noise that fitted in with the 'evil noise track'. We added in a texture to help calm down the evil noises when we didn't want them to be as strong. To get the music onto the actual track line itself, we had to drag it over and place it in the appropriate area, so for example textures would be put in the same track line as each other and cannot be put in the piano section

Camera Angles

Getting the right camera angles was also vital to tell the story of what is happening in the thriller opening, else the storyline wouldn't make any sense. We had to stay by a few rules however, one of these was the 180 degree line (DO NOT CROSS IT!)  and the other two were either the rule of thirds and golden mean. In the rule of thirds, the image is normally broken up into a grid of nine and the main attraction would be in the centre square, for example the image give of the butterfly is an example of the rule of thirds. The main attraction of this photograph would be the butterfly's wing.  The golden mean rule means that there is two subjects in the shot (normally). The shot of the landscape above the butterfly is demonstrating the golden mean. It shows where the eye would be drawn to normally. In this case the eye is drawn to the glacier and the cliff. This short clip from youtube shows a variety of different camera angles. It is mainly aimed at cutting the scene in an action film however it helps show the cutting effect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agiaT3SZQo&feature=channel 

Preliminary task

The main aim for our preliminary task was so we could get used to the way the cameras worked and also, master the techniques of editing on the iMac. During my group's preliminary task, we discovered how to use the camera effectively and to its maximum potential. We also learnt that it takes more than ONE shot to get it perfect (during the preliminary task it took up to three shots approximately). Also, getting the camera angles correct was vital, we learnt the rule of thirds and also the 180 degree rule. Other camera techniques we used was over the shoulder (conversation), CCTV (above shot). Other basic shots we used were extreme close ups (walking through the door, handle) and long distant shots. Getting a wide variety of techniques in our preliminary task was helpful when we came to make the thriller opening. *add in YouTube clip of the preliminary task*

In the making of our thriller opening we decided that it was best if we left a 5 second delay before actually filming what we wanted. This allows us to mess around with the clip more than what we got (for example trimming the clip down and also when it came to editing). Our planning for our two tasks was simple, although our idea changed a lot when we came to actually filming the thriller opening. We discovered that we had to gather more footage than we had originally got, therefore we had to go out in our own time and film more footage. This was difficult to do because the group had to make sure that the costumes and props were exactly the same as the original footage. *add images of thriller storyboard* Minus the difficulty of getting the footage we needed, the group and myself found that the filming day went successful.

The second storyboard displayed are images from my preliminary task. I felt that we developed well because we knew about camera and also the different types of editing techniques.