These are some of the improvements we made from making our prelim task and the opening to our horror film.

1. Have we improved as a film
maker from you Preliminary
task task?
Lianne Woolley

2. Carpet in our
shot that we
removed
from the
warehouse
before
filming.
This is our opening shot of our preliminary task. We have
learnt that we need to prepare our self for removing things
from out set for example in this show you can see the carpet
that we removed from the warehouse so we could film. We
have also got the companies sign in the shot where we
filmed.

3. In our opening two minutes to a horror film we have used an
over the shoulder shot. I think that we have improved this shot
because the one from our preliminary task the camera is
positioned behind the character not actually on his shoulder.
We also made sure that we couldn’t see any kind of
signs/companies etc. to ruin the shot.

4. Double shot: this shows both characters in the same shot to
help the audience understand what is going on. We have used
this type of shot in our opening but it is improved. We have
made sure that nothing is in the way i.e the door in the prelim.
Because we have improved on this, in our film, you can see
both characters allowing the audience to see what is going on.

5. We have used long shots in both of our products but, the
one in our film is a lot better to the one used in the prelim.
This is because in our film you can clearly see what is going
on, where as in the prelim, it was too far away causing you
to have to look very closely to see what is going on.

6. From our prelim task we have improved on editing and sound
effect to. In our prelim we relied on the sounds around us,
which at the start is very hard to here what the characters are
saying because of the traffic in the background. We also used
a gun sound effect at the end which sounded a bit out of
place. We have improved on this a lot. We used a voice over
at the start of our film which cut out any background noise and
helped set the scene. We including music in out film to help
build up tension in the audience where as we didn’t in our
preliminary task.
The transitions in our preliminary task were a bit jumpy and
sometimes didn’t fit. In our film, we made sure they ran
smoothly and make it clear to the audience it was a change of
scene or a time change.