Question 7

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

Preliminary task and thriller comparison:

The preliminary task was the third film we made in media studies that lacked a lot of components of a common thriller. It differed from our final film quite a bit. We used many different types of camera angles and techniques as well as sound techniques (diegetic, non-diegetic etc.) Our final thriller film had the same techniques but we used them in different but in better scenes. For example, match on action in  the park scenes in our final thriller, we took many different shots from different angles and we tried to put them together and make the film look smooth and look as if they fit in perfectly, correctly. Match on action in the preliminary task film was used in the scene when a character was walking into the room then the camera is at a different angle but we tried our best to make the film look smooth. It was much smoother on our final thriller piece.

The courier (match on action scenes)








What skills we gained and what did we learn?

We gained many skills when making our media films as well as gaining skills in between the making of the 4 films. We learned more about sound, sound effects and transitions to make the film look as professional  as possible and link the films back to real thrillers. We used different camera angles to make the films look better. we also learned about the best positions for the camera when when filming and how to use the tripods stands successfully and to our advantage.

Scenes from visions (final thriller)

Match on action