Evaluation Question 7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the finished product?

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

Over the course of a few months between editing the preliminary task and thriller, i have learnt quite a few things and improved in a lot of areas. I have learnt how to create suspense through editing by adapting the different time lengths as shots in the film.


                                                                      

                                                              
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When I was editing the preliminary task, i had basic skills like continuity editing as we can see in the GIF editing is continued when she walks through the door to the other side.


In this GIF below i used basic skills like shot/reverse shot whilst trying to maintain the 180 degree rule which was pretty straight forward. I did not know how to do much at this point in time.







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Now i am capable of creating what looks like a professional ident for my thriller which I was not all able to do, i did not even know what an ident was at the start of this course but now i am confident in creating one that I believe i could be of help to anyone who doesn't know how to create one. This  ident was simply created with Photoshop.





Now i can include titles to my film and make it look professional.





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I was also able to edit sound into my thriller which makes it even better. I could now adjust the sound levels, making sure that the diegetic sound can be heard over the soundtrack perfectly and also making sure that the soundtrack is not too loud that no other sounds can be picked up.









                    Beginning of preliminary task


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Final thriller


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As we can evidently see from the thriller there has been a lot of improvements like the camera shots angles, transition from colour to black and white, and also fade in and out.

When we were doing our preliminary task, we did not spend that much time preparing it, we just created storyboards with the images of the shots. this did not take much time filming it because we needed to get particular shots.

But with the thriller, our planning sheets were a lot such as:
Risk assessment
Treatment
Location
Animatic
Shooting schedule
Shot list 

We also spent a lot of time filming individual shots over and over again so we can get it perfectly right. We also used a microphone to capture the sounds properly. From the preliminary task I learned that every frame and shot counts as your are filming therefore learning from my mistakes then I managed to reduce those mistakes which was helpful as it was less time consuming that way. 

The risk assessment also helped us reduce the risk of getting hurt as we were filming, the planning sheets really made us organised unlike when we were doing the preliminary task where nothing was really in order.

The thriller has definitely helped me improve my editing skills more than anything else