Task 7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

I have learnt from this project is more about the different types of camera angles, 180 degree rule, I have learnt most about editing, whilst doing the finishing touches of editing to our film, I have learnt all about the cuts of the different scenes and how to change the speed of the action taking place. All these things about editing have interested me a lot during the project and it has influence me to want to do more of it. The whole day filming our project, working with professionals, and being able to direct some of our film, got me learning a lot more about the ways of how to use a professional camera. I also learned whilst filming the action taking place to use the camera like playing an instrament. Using techniques like close-ups, tracking. These techniques helped us present the mood of what was happening. For example, we chose to use close ups on his face and his hands wrapping the boxing tape around his hands to show the emotion going through his mind. We also used close ups on his body working out, to really show how hard he was working and to show the sweat on his body to show how long he had been working out. The aim of the close ups we used was to also get the audience to relate to what Dan our character was feeling at the time. We also used lighting to creat a mood in this task, whereas in our prilimary task we did not use this teachnique. Instead we used the head lights in the room, so this did not create as much of a mood.


After our filming day we have been concentrating on editing. In this task we focused on working on every detail of the footage. We have been aiming to make the emotion and the mood of our film a lot clearer through editing, which has succeeded greatly. This is because we new what we had to translate to our audience in our editing, so we all knew exactly what we had to achieve. An example of this, is that we wanted to show how hard Dan was working for his last fight and we wanted to show exactly what he was thinking, and how much training and pain Dan had to go through to get his way. So we made thing clear by creating sequences of his training progress. To get it right, we had to cut from one shot to another without breaking the flow of the sequence. not only did we have to do this but we also had to build up the tension and the tension of the end of our beginning. To create this effect we made the speed of our piece get faster and faster, however we slowed the speed down when it cuts back to Dan sitting in the changing room, rapping his hand with the which boxing tapes. So this creates the effect of the editing showing to the audience that all the working out that dan was doing throughout or sequence, is in his thoughts, it also suggests the emotion dan is feeling.

Our set for our thriller was a much better set up than our set in our preliminary task, in our thriller we had a big studio to work in, with a brick wall to give us a background of Dan working in a basement area. With our preliminary task we had other things around our set which did relate to our storyline, or our piece. we also had our characters sat in an awkward place. For example one of our characters was sat at a desk with a telephone, where he did not look like he was not in a office but in a classroom, which he was in at the time. The preliminary task was not as organised and in as much detail as our thriller project. That is also another reason for why I enjoyed doing our thriller project.