The document discusses improvements made to a film project from a preliminary version to a final product. Some key improvements included starting with establishing shots of production companies, using wider and more stable establishing shots, improved editing with smoother transitions, utilizing different camera angles and elevations to keep viewers interested, incorporating some camera movement from tripods, varying the range of shots used by filming in new locations, and challenging conventions to build pace. The final product had a more professional, coherent structure and pacing compared to the preliminary version.

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2. An improvement from the preliminary came with the first few seconds of our
piece. We started our sequence by showing the distribution and production
companies. Not starting the shots straight away looks professional to an
audience and is also a typical convention of an opening sequence.

3. The longer establishing shot is also a typical convention of a opening scene.
Our wide shot Is stable on a tripod unlike a lot of our preliminary shots. The
wide shot shows the setting perfectly establishing the scene well. It hints at the
story without revealing much.

4. The transitions between shots were improved massively because of my practice
in editing. We used IMovies transitions of fade to black and blur to create the
effects we needed for the film. The constant straight cuts in our preliminary task
made the pace much too fast and not coherent.

5. The quality of our camera is shown here. It is much better than the camera we
used in the preliminary because it is HD quality. The IPhone camera we used
also allowed us to easily move it on and off of the tripods we used

6. In our film we used shots from of different elevations and angels to keep the
audience interested. This shot we added in our final shoot because the pills
could have gone unseen otherwise. We used a few low to the ground shots with
high and low angles. The high angle on this shot reveals more about the tablets
and hints at how many could have been taken by our character.

7. There was little camera movement in our preliminary so it looked dull and
unprofessional. We used camera movement in our product but mostly from
tripods so the shots wouldn’t look shaky. In this shot the zoom reveals that
the character is still alive during the sequence as we see his eyes flicker. We
also see the characters face clearly so the audience gets an idea of what he’s
going through.

8. As the preliminary was all filmed in a classroom we could not vary the range of
shots we used. In the final product we used a great variation of shots. This long
shot revealed more of the setting and introduced the passer by. It foreshadows
the main character being found as we see the subway on the right of the shot.

9. This shot was used to reverse the effect of the American Beauty’s shot in its
opening sequence. This shot cuts to a shot of the passer by walking further on
down the path. It challenges conventions of an opening sequence which we did
not do in the preliminary. It also builds the pace of the film which is needed
leading up to the end of the scene.

10. This shot was used to reverse the effect of the American Beauty’s shot in its
opening sequence. This shot cuts to a shot of the passer by walking further on
down the path. It challenges conventions of an opening sequence which we did
not do in the preliminary. It also builds the pace of the film which is needed
leading up to the end of the scene.