In my final product, I conducted a lot of research and planning into every decision I made. However I did face a problem with my mise-en-scene with my interview room. The problem was that it appeared too light and friendly when it needed to appear dimmer and more sincere. If I was going to film it again I would make this change. This was similar to the interview scene in my preliminary task however the scenarios were different; my preliminary task needed a lighter, more relaxed atmosphere which contrasts with the atmosphere I needed for my final product which should have been more sincere however I did not manage to create this atmosphere successfully.
In my preliminary task, me and my partner also used an interview scene to show our over the shoulder shots. However I didn’t want to use over the shoulder shots in my opening section to show my interviewer because I did not want any attention taken away from my own main characters.
The editing in my preliminary task was done well, especially the match on action with opening the door and leaving the interview area. This inspired my match on action editing in my final product which turned out to be my best section of editing in the two minutes of footage I edited.
My narrative in my preliminary task was very basic, with only a few lines of exchanged dialogue. I wanted my final product to have a complicated narrative because in my questionnaire, the people I asked preferred a mysterious thriller film to an obvious one therefore I wanted to confuse my audience in the first two minutes so they continue watching it throughout. However this may of become too confusing for my audience because I did not want to use unnecessary titling to explain the situation, for example “4 months earlier” as I believe they appear unprofessional.
The filming of my preliminary task reinforced knowledge of certain basic shots which I was able to without difficulty in my final product. The issues we faced also in the preliminary task I was able to avoid for my final piece or to adapt to make my product different and better, therefore making the best result I could have achieved.
Looking back at my preliminary task, I believe I have improved a vast amount since then. In my preliminary task I was with a partner and we just experimented with a limited range of techniques including match on action, simple camera shots and a slight different range. We also faced issues with lightening which shows we did not consider our mise-en-scene thoroughly enough. Our problem with the lightening was that we filmed me with the sun directly shining behind me which made me unclear and dark to the camera. However I have used this technique to help me in my final product as I filmed Katie appearing from the light behind her as she walked down the stairs. This is because I wanted Katie to appear as a silhouette until she was closer to
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