Question 7 DRAFT

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Question 7 DRAFTLooking back at your preliminaWhat do you feel you hae lea

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Negotiating skills in team work

Since doing my preliminary I had learned the importance of many factors ango into making a short lm, that I previously had little knowledge of. One of working together as a team is the best approach because everyone in my gvalid and creative contributions to our nal production. This meant we couldbest individual ideas into a single one, that involved aspects in it that withouother wouldnt have been in there. !ike Isaac had the idea for the underwatehad the technology, and without this it wouldnt have even occurred to me tpossibility" or #arry my editing partner came up with the idea of $uickly cut

several shots of looking down the barrel of a gun to make it intense. one of think teamwork is best is because weve all seen di%erent thriller lms so wdi%erent knowledge of inter&te'tual references so can contribute this varietygroup involved both males and females which was part of our target audienwe could re)ect the knowledge of how to appeal to them into our thriller. Oupreliminary task introduced us to these important points as we worked in thgroup so already had good group dynamics.


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Initial ideas we all workedtogether to come up with.


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*olishing camera skills

+oing the preliminary task familiarised myself with camera skills for e'ample camemade me realise the importance that I needed to involve a variety of di%erent anglemore interesting and visually stimulating for the viewer. urthermore, when doing thon my preliminary task and case studies I improved my knowledge on implications ainferences of these angles like an over the shoulder shot -a depending on if its a hangle, usually always positions us in the point of view of the character usually so weside0 and empathi1e with them. (lso close ups and e'treme close ups so we can seecharacters emotions or to see something of importance, this was especially importaa convention of thrillers (dditionally, the preliminary task developed my knowledge

camera movements, such as tracking and panning shots, usually used so we could composition of the shot or to follow2go to something of importance. 3e attempted ttracking shot -b in our preliminary however it didnt go very well because it wasnt and level, and harder than we initially thought. 4ut when it came to shooting our thdid a tracking shot and it went a lot better because it was smoother and didnt trembecause we discovered it was easier using a tripod for it and you needed to be gentrecording it, we also needed to get our actor to time his run2movements better with


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5eneric 6onventions

+oing case studies and watching thriller lms helped me establish and develop my knogenre. or e'ample, before doing case studies I had no idea what chiaroscuro lighting wwas commonly found within the genre, but when investigating lms such as 7sse' 4oySe8en -d. I found that it was very common and is one of the biggest signiers to the g9oreover cli% hangers were often used at the end of openings specically to create unkeep the audience on the edge of their seats because this adds to conventions of the ge'ample in #eavenly 6reatures or The Third 9an. In our preliminary task we didnt havconventions of thrillers so it was something we really had to e'tensively research in clastudies so we could convey these and show our knowledge within our nal production.

conventional tension and an'iety is something we really struggled with when rst startas we didnt have to do this much in our preliminary. 3ith our rst rough cut we decidemore footage so had to do this twice in order to progress to the end product we desiredconstruct tension and an'iety, once again on the forest and in a house, the teacher feehelped us achieve this. 3ithin our production we had to be careful because I discoverestudies, thrillers must be realistic, otherwise they turn more into horror or fantasy lmsconducting research into other thriller lms gave us inspiration to make our opening ase'citing as possible through inter te'tual references and storyline ideas.


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Techni$ues

:;< +egree =ule -e> This is when the camera 9?ST stay on one side, and that invisible a'is that it cannot cross, but in some cases it can be crossed if the transhown on screen. The preliminary task introduced me to the importance of this if you ignore this rule you break continuity and disrupt the viewer. (nd establishuse it easily use and apply it within planning and shooting.

6ontinuity while shooting> This is a rule we soon learnt the use of when lming preliminary task, as we discovered it was more e@cient to lm all the shots we one location all at the same time. Anowledge of this learnt from the preliminaryhelpful when doing our thriller. This is because we have a lot of shots in a forestfrom the house to the forest back and forth would have been a waste of time an

9atch on action -f> Is an editing techni$ue of when you cut to what the focus ois then cut back. 3e chose to do this within our nal production because it showskills we had learned and gained knowledge of when researching case studies. variety to our shots and makes it more visually stimulating for the viewer.


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Techni$ues

7lliptical editing -g> this is when we used techni$ues within editing that omit pevent, causing ellipsis in the plot and story. 3e used this when 4illy is thinking by superimposing the clip of #olly pointing the gun over the top of a close up of3hich is something we learned how to do in the editing process of our preliminathen went further to do this in our thriller as we felt more condent in doing it fpreliminary. (nd this made our thriller more appealing to the viewer because it more visually attention&grabbing for the audience to look at.

Shot reverse shot -h > Is where the camera slightly copies a characters eye sige'ample their was a conversation the camera would go from one character to athen return to the rst character all on the same sort of angle as the character.this harder to do than we initially thought in our preliminary, so we kept it as simpossible placing the camera generally in the e'act position of each character umid shot. #owever when it came to the thriller opening we had gained these skuse them in a more comple' way, so we opted to over the shoulder shots, and vangles in our shot reverse shot, to make it more visually stimulating for the aud


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Importance of cli% hanger

3hen watching thriller lms and researching case studies the cli% hanger atthe opening, was essentially important in grabbing the audiences attention them engage into the lm by making them want to nd out more. or our prwe took a more comedic approach to it so we didnt feel a cli% hanger was vimportant at the time. 4ut when watching thriller lms I found that I Budged made a preconception on it from the $uality of the opening and its cli% hanggripping, e'citing and thrilling then I did want to watch more, like out of !( 6or our cli% hanger the audience want to nd out if 4illyCs murdered and wh

reality and which is the vision2nightmare. In our nal :< seconds the cameralot and we edit a lot of cuts, but then we nish in slow motion with high diegof unsettling breathing and then nally fade to black. This fast past editing amovements and editing disorientates and obscures the viewer -i, but then wto slow motion of a close up on 4illys face -B" they get to take in what Bust hsee 4illys scared emotions, and are left waiting and anticipating to nd out ne't, but instead of nding out it dips to black.


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Importance of research and casstudies!ooking into other thriller lms really helped establish and apply generic conven

thrillers into my production. or e'ample thrillers such as The Third man was veinspirational because its an iconic and well known thriller that have many signigenre like using black and white -k or chiaroscuro lighting. Therefore we chose this because it would be easily recognisable due to its popularity therefore reinfthriller genre conventions into our production. urthermore another thriller that inspiring was Aill 4ill : -l, this was because it was a more contemporary thrillerrepresented gender and ethnicity in a better and more diverse way. 3e wantedthis within our thriller as our target audience would have preferred this view, th

likely to have seen and liked other lms like this also, and would have recognisete'tual references in our production more likely& making them feel clever.

Overall researching the genre not only broadened my knowledge of camera andtechni$ues, and ones specic for the genre, it established and developed my knconventions that we had to apply into our production in order for it to be recognthriller.


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Importance of the soundtrack

9ost of the soundtracks within in thriller lms arecreating a certain mood or feeling, often an'iety atension, commonly using percussion instruments,found out through research, like the one out of *siconic shower scene. (dditionally soundtracks are

to the narrative and are fre$uently serve the purpconstructing power for certain characters by it besynchronised with them. Trying to nd the rightsoundtrack was a di@cult process looking at free websites simply wasnt enough. I discovered thro

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Importance of feedback

Through our blogs our tutor could comment on our posts and tell us wimprove upon. This was very helpful because it could help us improvepiece of work the comment was on -m, and give us knowledge of thefor ne't time to achieve this grade. or e'ample when we rst startedcase studies I focused more on the general analysis of the clip and its4ut through comments I understood that I needed to do this and link conventions of the genre and how it does this. I realise now that this whelpful so I have the knowledge of the genre and could apply this in o

production. (lso giving $uestionnaires to our target audience helped wto improve -n and how to focus these improvements to our target audiscovered that this was very useful as they noticed things I didnt, bewhen editing I am watching it so many times I often became desensitand miss aspects that they wouldnt have, the viewer often notice mimissed.


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