Prelim: Evaluation

The prelim which we created wasn't as great as we expected it to be for several reasons, although we did manage to post it to the blog on time. 

The first problem that we ocame across was that one of our group members was away; therefore the planned plot for the prelim had to be altered - we could not follow the original storyboard we created. On the day, we had to improvise whilst stickin to the similar storyline. Doing this did consume a lot of the filming time we had. However, this can be seen as beneficial because when filming for the thriller we may come across a similar problem; as a result, we would know how to tacklt this type of dilemma if we are faced with it.

As a lot of time had been spent on altering our storyline and filming the scenes, we cut into the time we had for editing our prelim. This was a huge set back for us as we did not get to use much effects as we had hoped to use. But, we managed to cut clips and put the clips in the right order. This also meant that we did not have much time to add sounds to the clip, despite doing research and selecting the sounds we intended on using. From this, we learnt that we could've started on creating sounds to add to the clip on Soundtrack Pro whilst the film was being edited.

A good thing that came out of this was that we learnt to use the 180° rule effectively. We also used a variety of camera shots, such as close up and panning. There was one point where the clip was too long and seemed a bit boring, but we could not cut this as we did not have other clips which would be suitable to use. As a result of this problem, we have gained the knowledge to not have long lengths of clips without cuts when creating the thriller. 

This prelim activity was very helpful for us in understanding the 180° rule, as well as showing us how difficult it is to edit in a short amount of time and the use of different camera shots & angles. For the thriller we hope to not repeat the same mistakes.