Looking back at my preliminary task I have learnt so much more about the technologies involved in making a film. For example, my knowledge of adobe premiere was very limited for the preliminary task as it had never used it before, I still didn't have a completely full understanding at the beginning of this project but after hours and hours of editing I now know how to use this editing software to a good standard. For example, I now know how to split shots in to two, add transitions and effects and change the colours within a shot. We were very experimental with our editing but found that some edits didn't have the effect we were hoping for such as altering the darkness. We could only film as a group at times of the day where it was still light, to meet the conventions of a horror we thought that we would need to make it dark so we experimented with altering the darkness but found that it looked strange because there was still blue sky.
One main issue that we found in our preliminary was our lack of knowledge about ideal shots, we also didn't film enough footage which made it look almost unfinished and didn't really make much sense. However, the preliminary taught me essentials in film producing such as the 180 degree rule, and it worked quite effectively in our preliminary, we made sure that it worked as effectively in our project in order not to confuse the audience because if the camera crosses the invisible axis then the subjects would look like they have swapped positions, confusing and disorientating the audience, it's a vital rule in filming.
In the preliminary the weakness of our group was keeping to the plan. When we were filming we The 180-degree rule is a guideline where the camera can only remain on the one side of an invisible axis when two people or objects are in a shot, the camera can be placed anywhere within the 180 degree angle so that the subjects remain on the same side of each other. If it crosses the line the subjects will appear to have swapped positions and the viewers get disorientated. The only exception for crossing the line is when the viewers can see the camera moving over the line. refer to the story board and we ended up with a lot of shots that didn't work in the way that we wanted to. So for the practical I made sure that we always referred to the story board so that we didn't lose track. However, during filming we found that some of the shots didn't work out the way we wanted them to and we had to change some of what we had put on the story board.
Due to the location the productivity of our group was sometimes low, as the preliminary was located in doors filming was fluent, but for the practical is wasn’t. As we filmed at the park and the lighter nights meant that younger children were at the park at times of filming scenes involving the mask, we were not able to do film with the disturbing baby mask with young children around.
We tried to incorporate a wider range of shots in our practical because our preliminaries had very limited shots mainly due to the small area that we filmed in. The location of where we filmed the practical allowed us to film at different angles, and so our film involves a wider range of shot types than our preliminary such as ariel shots, as well as panning and hand held shots.
As my preliminary was filmed in doors continuity didn’t seem a problem, however as our horror opening was filmed all outdoors this proved a massive issue. As we had to film on multiple days we found that the lighting in our shots varied form warmer tones to colder tones. During the middle of our filming process it began to snow quite badly meaning that snow was on the ground for several days. We thought we had no choice but to just film with snow on the ground even though it wasn’t there in shots prior to the snow. We decided that we had to film all of the scenes again where the snow was really prominent which made filming a lengthy process.
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