As a group, we brainstormed a variety of ideas for our prelim task. For example, we made a mindmap of all our ideas we had which included our main prop being the briefcase as we believed that the fact the briefcase is clearly hiding something. We agreed that the mysterious aspect would make our sequence much better and hook in our audience. We decided that all four of us would feature in the opening so that we would all get a chance to film and act. We all had relatively equal amounts of spotlight and we all filmed very equally. Our costumes were casual and classy due to our extract being about business arrangements. Our other prop was the LED handheld stick lamp in our briefcase when Elliot opens it to give an element of importance to the mystery item(s) in the briefcase. We all put our ideas into the script when we wrote it and ensured we all had enough to say and do. Our script was solemn and this links to the typical thriller conventions. Because we were all GCSE Media students, we were all very experienced on filming so we trusted each other well enough to understand what we each wanted to accomplish.Storyboard
We created a storyboard once we developed our script so we would understand what we were going to do and where we were going to be, including posture and composition. Our storyboard was quite detailed and drawn accurately so we would know exactly where we would be and how. Although not exactly artistic or blatant who was who, we understood quickly enough and this helped us a lot during our filming process. Filming
During our filming, we were all educated on how to use the camera seeing as we were all GCSE students so we were not struggling at all. Our filming process was quick and we used the right compositions and there were no errors in filming. For example, after the split screen ended, Vicky was positioned in the right place at the side and I was positioned at the other side. This worked very well so that she was hidden until the split screen ended. I liked this part as it gave a sense of slyness and danger as it was very clear that I was going against Elliot in our plot and was working with Vicky to scheme against him. Also, I liked when there was multiple over-the-shoulder shots of Elliot and Rachel due to the angle and composition to be how we initially wanted it to be.Editing
During our editing process, we brainstormed ideas of how we were going to make our extract much better. We all agreed to add in sound effects to create a much bigger effect and to add in a split-screen which thankfully worked very well. It was not a long and difficult process as we didn't do too much editing seeing as we wanted it to look as natural as possible. Unfortunately, we decided to cut out one part of our filming. This was a shot of Elliot handing Rachel a photo. We did not include this shot because we ran out of time to do the editing. However, I enjoyed the shot as it was over-the-shoulder and very well in focus.Evaluation
Our strengths in our film would definitely be the quality of the filming. We were all very equal in who filmed and took it in turns to do this. We did the right compositions we wanted so there was no errors in this. We ensured focus and the correct length of each shot. I also believe that our editing regarding the split screen worked extremely well and the quality of this was by far the best part of our extract. Our main weakness would be at the beginning of the film when it quickly cuts from Rachel walking to immediately her sat down. This could have been prevented if we would have shot one more scene of her actually walking then sitting down in one shot, however we didn't as we ran out of filming time. However, I am very happy with the way our extract turned out and I believe I have learnt many different ways of editing including how to use split screen and how to speed up wipes and fades.
Final Prelim
