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

Ashleigh, Max and Nicole's Group Thriller Blog!: Evaluation Q7-Progression: In this task, we compare our thriller openings we filmed, to the preliminary task we did at the beginning of the year. From the comparison, ...
In this task, we compare our thriller openings we filmed, to the preliminary task we did at the beginning of the year. From the comparison, you will clearly see the progress we have made.

Here is the break down of the video: 
Negatives about preliminary task
-background noise
-break of 180 rule
-inapproprate high angle of ashleigh
-simple shots
-location issues (people in background)
-lack of props/surrounding not a kitchen
-not very ambitious
Positives about Pride and Ego Down
-great foley
-elaborate use of shots
-appropriate angles
-sound track
-tight editing
-relevent info
-no jump cuts
-professional
-good story line
-good colour corrrecting and editing
-good acting
-use of technique

Editing the footage.

After we imported the footage, we had to edit the clips together and make then flow well.

To cut down the footage, i used the 'In' and 'out' method of getting the right moments of the chip.

To get the effect of the evidence over the footage, i put the footage over eachother, and double clicked on the evidence clipping. I then selected sped up the footage to roughly 2500%, and selected the opacity to be 100. This made the footage translucent, so you can see parts of the evidence over the river time lapse.

Nicoles edit

Shooting cancelled/Re-Scheduled.

Our original date we were going to film was to be the 20th December 2011. Due to a member of our group having last minute overtime for work, we were unable to shoot that day because they also had the camera equipment.

This caused some arguments between the group, as we had all the preparations done for that day, and actors were free on that day too. However we eventually moved on, and sorted out another day to shoot. 

We are not planning to shoot our thriller on the 7th January 2012. 

The plans will be the same as before, (call list etc). And here is the weather forecast for that day (I will have to update it closer to the date, because BBC Weather didn't show exact forecasts on each hour:

We will be using the same shot list, risk assessment, equipment list as before. We have just changed the date of the shoot.

Thriller notes

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