1. Evaluation: Question 7
Q7. Looking back at your preliminary
task, what do you feel you have learnt
in the progression from it to the full
product?

2. Planning and Storyboard
• Before making the prelim, we thought about the
story line on the spot, and then just jotted down the
ideas we have and made a storyboard; it was very
last minute.

3. Planning and Storyboard continued
• Whereas, before making the official thriller
film opening, we planned it for days (over
nights) and really thought about it and put a
lot of concentration into the storyline. We
then made a storyboard and a pitch to
summaries our ideas.

4. Camera skills
In this shot from the PRELIM
you can see there’s a lot of
space above the head as I
enter the scene.
Whereas in the THRILLER
OPENING I’ve learnt the
mistake made from the prelim
and made sure there isn’t a
lot of space above the
characters head.

5. Camera skills continued
This shot should have been
done from an over the
shoulder shot angle which
would have made the
audience more into the film
and make more sense.
However, in the official thriller
opening we used over the
shoulder shots when the
villains stalking me, this
creates more tense and makes
the audience more into the
film.

6. Mise en scene
As you can clearly see in the
print screen, the setting in
the prelim was a total mess,
as there was people in the
background and we chose the
wrong setting for our prelim.
So we spent a lot of time for
the mise en scene for our
thriller film and we made
sure it comes out good this
time.

7. Titles
In the prelim, the title was
“The Exchange” and when
your watching the prelim on a
large screen, you can barely
see the writing of the title
clearly which makes the film
look very un-realistic.
In the official final thriller
opening film, we put the title
on a dark background to
make it stand out more and
we made the text more
freaky and tense looking so it
gives the audience a better
understanding of the genre of
the film.

8. Sound
• In the prelim, we didn’t put any music into the
background, so all you can hear is the people
in the background talking.
• Whereas, in the thriller film, I made a music
instead of copyrighting someone else’s music.
The music I made is very tensing and
suspense, and really blends in with our sub-
genre; mystery thriller.

9. Conclusion of prelim and thriller film
• I am happy to have made mistakes in the
prelim because this has made me more aware
of common mistakes such as mise en scene,
shot types and titles. The mistakes have made
me overcome them issues and make sure I
don’t make the same mistakes in the final film.