Q7

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

Looking back at our preliminary task, you can easily see the confidence we have gained since then, in shooting, acting, editing and planning. We have also learned along the way with our preliminary task. Such as what went well and what didn’t  work.  For example we felt our editing of our prelim was too slow and slightly boring. We focused on changing this in Le Monde as you can see, we have used straight cuts throughout and used non diegetic sound much more effectively compared to our prelim. In order to create more pace and maintain the audiences attention throughout.

We focused on continuity this time much more than our prelim. We knew this would make it much more professional and look much better overall.  We also knew we had to keep to the 180 degree wall throughout. We also planned so much more and in much more detail than we did for our prelim and we felt this paid off in Le Monde. We had a structured set of shots to follow and it made us much more efficient.

Our planning to our opening was extensive, we made a hand drawn storyboard, a detailed shot list of every single shot we would use, researched multiple possible locations and searched thoroughly for appropriate props. However we found that during our filming day we did not stick to our pre prepared shot list. As well as this we also decided to experiment with several different locations that we had not planned to go to before hand.

After editing the footage for over a week we decided that we did not have enough footage to show off our range of shot types. We eventually decided to cut down the idea to just the killing scene at the end. We thought we could use our cinematography skills to much more if we did a simpler opening and did it well. Instead of having our original idea; ‘Running through field,  running into town, walks through town’ etc. The original idea gave us a lot to get right and the cut down version was a gamble for us but we felt it was the right decision as we were able to show all of cinematography skills.

I feel our opening was very good overall, however changes could have been made. For example, at the shot when the camera follows the rope we could of added something significant at the end, such as a tube of lipstick or a glove that the killer was wearing.