Planning and Research:
After completing the preliminary task I thought that the planning stage of the project would be easy and that my group and I would come up with an idea for a film opening relatively quickly, but even though we thought of choosing the horror genre immediately the story line took us a while to think of. I learnt that if I search existing products and how they were successful then it becomes easier to come up with an idea that works. Another thing I learnt about film making is that even if you think an idea works you have to pitch the idea to see if others think it will as well otherwise it may not be a good idea. Another thing I learnt in this stage was how much planning was needed for props and the setting for when we were going to film as there had to be enough room in the filming space and enough props to make it look like a natural environment.
Filming:
In the preliminary task we had used a quite a few different shots so i thought we had covered it all however we had filmed in a large space and with a simple plot. In the film opening the room we had chosen to shoot in was a lot smaller so re-positioning of props and placing the camera in strange places came as a learning curve to me. Another thing that I learnt when filming was that we couldn't stick completely to the storyboard because as we were filming new shots appeared to us and we changed some of the shot angles and some of the continuity between shots in the storyboard didn't make sense so they had to be altered to fit the plot we were trying to follow. Team work was also an important factor in this filming stage and something that we had to keep up even when we came across problems like trying to get the shot right and who would film that particular shot, we also had to decide between takes of that shot and there were sometimes difference of opinions but we made it work. some shots that we thought of while making the preliminary video we decided that we liked how effective they were and decided to use some of these in our film opening, shots like the extreme high angles. We also learnt about the things we couldn't do for our film opening like the restrictions on equipment effected which shots we could achieve. Tracking and pan shots were difficult to do smoothly as the tripod and camera we had didn't have the right settings to cope with these types of shots.
Editing:
this was the biggest learning curve for me out of the whole project as I had taken a step back in the post-production stage in the preliminary task. When we edited i learned about all of the programs I had to use to put all the footage into a finished film opening and even though it took me a while to learn it I managed to contribute to edit the final piece. Time management was a major factor to the editing stage as we had to work to a deadline and we were all still learning about the programs while trying to complete the task in time. We did overcome this issue through the sharing of knowledge about the programs and researching what we didn't know. Including conventions of a horror film was also something that we had to do in the editing stage as well as the planning stage because we had filmed in bright light but we needed dark scenes for the shots to fit in with the genre so that was another tool we had to work out. I also learnt that we had to accept our target audiences criticism in order to complete a film that would be watched by members of our target audience.
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