Evaluation Question Seven

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

When looking back at or preliminary task, even without searching for them many mistakes come up, when it was completed at the beginning of the course we did not have the expertise to notice these mistakes therefore they were left, this in itself shows great progress from our preliminary to now, the examples of mistakes are the cuts and their fluency, the mise en scene in regards to costume and setting and the use of technology was not very good.
This was all excused by the group as lack of experience and time, we were given a day to film and as long as the camera angles and movements were included we did not have to take continuity into account, props were used but we just had to use what we had at hand and planning was completed non-existent.
framing was not highly considered and useful enough footage was found only after a fair amount of footage was voided due to inclusion of random people and items.
framing due to the lack of full mise en scene consideration we decided to film within a classroom which did not fit within our era piece including cowboys and maidens, our editing was satisfactory but only done very vaguely, the transitions used were tasteless and when looked back on i detested them, they did not fit the conventions of  this story right and broke continuity very frequently.
location and weather was not able to be considered within the time frame so filming was carried out on a very windy day upon our school field, meaning that background noise was prominent and and the horizon shows many contemperary buildings breaking continuity within our actually proposed story,
Editing was difficult though in other respects when it came to customising titles or adding music to our piece.

When comparing this to our final film it is obvious that we have improved in the uses of our technology and also the time we were allocated gave us more freedom beforehand in order to research and plan our product in order to meet the genric conventions of a film and help our film to flourish.
Mise en scene, location, sound, editing, lighting, props costumes and camera work were considered greatly in terms of generic conventions and appeal for our target audience.
In terms of sound a stereoypical generic score is used to connote darkness and a sinister intetions within our film opening, this was highly considered and as music was not even contemplated for our preliminary task improvents were made in regards to music but also the consideration of unwanted background sounds and how this mistake faced in the preliminary could be avoided when filming by simple not genrating noise while the camera was recording or replacing the noise with  non-diegetic music we had decided on through considered royalty free music and music created by our group.

The Mise en scene was greatly considered in our final film compared to our preliminary, the time we had to consider each aspect we a great deal more as well so it gave us more freedom and a higher chance for creativity.
where we had little time for organising the costume, location and lighting for our the preliminary film this was quite the contrary for our final project as we were able to organise our entire film in different types of storyboards and plans, for the setting of our film we considered many different locations for each of our scenes within the opening, locations for the bedroom scenes, the bathroom scenes and the kitchen scenes were researched greatly on each strength and weakness in order to choose our final filming locations and come out with the ideal footage. Our bedroom seemed relatively simple and minimalist and containing dark connotations through natural light and the shadowed tones, also the kitchen connotes a front of normality with it's bright high key lighting but this goes against conventions    to support the uses and gratifications audience theory comprised Dennis McQuall, as they seek the conventions hidden behind the mise, in this case the sense of hidden danger given by the kitchen.
within our preliminary we had a day to film and so locations were not considered as greatly, we had to decide on our school field which was not ideal and a classroom which ruined continuity for our entire film. The lighting within our final film represents our main antagonist and his state of mental well being, as it it seen to go down the the key of lighting, his thoughts are seen to become darker and his mentality diminishing.
Props were also thought of greatly considered, each less vital prop was even considered in continuity and convention of a psychological thriller, for example, the tea bag packaging is red, and although this is a very minor prop with little screen time the red is used to connote danger and blood, conventions stereotypically used in films such a psychological thrillers such as ours.
When creating our preliminary task we mainly focused on including certain camera angles and movements, we kept to the 180 degree rule and included a match on action shot and a shot reverse shot where necessary in order to keep continuity and to avoid confusing the audience, as we basically only concentrated on this specific element we overlooked a lot of things that were important to concentrate on when completing our final project.