The student learned several things from completing their preliminary task to filming their full opening sequence. They learned how to sync dialogue to mouth movements better. They also learned to film from the side rather than behind subjects. Additionally, they learned techniques like adjusting the tripod angle to create shallow depth of field, using phone flashlights to light scenes dimly but not too darkly, and allowing occasional autofocus issues to enhance scenes rather than distract. Creating a storyboard helped establish shots and scenes better than improvising. Experimenting with different camera angles added production value over the preliminary task. Overall, the student was pleased with the final product and felt they explored different techniques and options to create the best project possible.

1. 7. LOOKING BACK TO YOUR
PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO
YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE LEARNT
IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO
THE FULL PRODUCT?

2. From when I filmed my preliminary
task to filming my opening sequence I
have learnt a lot of things, as when I
filmed the preliminary task I found it
hard to get the talking in time with the
mouth movements as its filmed many
times.When I did the talking for the
beginning scene I found it easier as I
had already learnt how to do it and I
could pick out the loudest speaking
which is still in time to make it easier
to here.Also when filming the
preliminary task I moved the camera
every time the person said something
and I went behind them whereas in the
opening scene I did it from the side so
you could see that they were not
looking at each other as they were not
friends.

3. Also when I did this before I placed the
tripod so that it was level however I
wanted it to be leaning forward and
make it shallow depth of field. I did this
by lowering the front leg on the tripod so
that it was leaning into the conversation.
As the preliminary task was filmed all
indoors and by windows so that it was
natural light used although we filmed
some of ours indoors as we wanted the
scene to be dark we used phone
flashlights to make it brighter but still
dark, this also created shadows which
helped the scene look better.

4. When we were outside it was difficult to
film as some of the shots are darker than
others as the sun set, this would have
made it hard to show that she is running
during the day. However a lot of those
shots were the ones that celaine was in and
they turned out with a reddish tint which
looked good as it shows she is in a different
world.When we filmed one of the bed
scenes the camera kept coming in and out
of focus, this was annoying as it was an
auto focus camera however it worked in
our favour as I wanted it to look like she
was half asleep as it was a point of view
shot, this made it seem like she wasn’t real
as well.When doing the preliminary task I
didn’t have this problem as the scenes
where well lit and clear what the main
subject was.

5. It was difficult to create more of a story for
preliminary task as it was just to demonstrate
the basic understanding, making a storyboard
made it easier as we knew where we were going
to film it and what was going to happen rather
than just getting the people to walk.We were
also able to make a storyboard to show what
we going to do at each stage whereas we just
made the people walk in preliminary task.

6. Our opening sequence had music playing
throughout and it linked to what was
happening and was previously used on a horror
programme so linked to the film. Conversely
the music which I used in my preliminary task
had nothing to do with what was happening
and it just stopped whereas we made the
opening sequence slowly fade out.
When doing the preliminary task it was filmed
on two different days and as we didn’t ask the
people to wear the same clothes then they
were in different clothes which looked out of
place.As we filmed one of the inside scenes on
a different day we made her wear the same
clothes as before to make it look like it was the
same day etc.

7. when filming we experimented with different camera
angles as in the preliminary it was all the same type of
angles as it was eye level mainly, I used different angles to
create more of a horror genre as when it flipped to the
pictures of celaine it was different angles and close-ups to
show that she is different to them and it made her seem
like she was moving. Most of the shots that were filmed for
the preliminary task are mid shots to long shots, overall I’m
pleased with what we made as we both put in a lot of effort
to get the filming down soon so that we could make
improvements if necessary and look over it to see if other
bits needed to be added, I think we produced the best
product we could as we explored different ways and added
parts which didn’t work out quite so well.