Question 8: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From our preliminary task, I feel that we did use quite a range of shot types and angles but we had the posibility that we could of included more, also some of the clips we used lasted too long. When filming our final film we decided we would use as many different shot types and angles as we could, such as we experimented with canted angles on the stairs and the clown and also shot the same clips many times at different lengths to give as much variety in shots as possible. On the right is some examples of different shot types and angles from our preliminary film and on the left are some examples of different shot types and angles from our final film including a midshot, a canted angle and an extreme close up. From the preliminary task, we learnt not to hold one shot for too long so we tried to keep the time of our clips to a minimum. Also from our preliminary we found how shakey the camera can be when not using a tripod so in our final film we used the tripod to hold a steady shot in as many places as possible. We also considered composition, in our preliminary task we thought we composed our shots quite well with the 9 grid guidelines on the camera so we decided we would use the grid to help compose our shots for the final film, we think because of this it helped the compostion in our final film. In our preliminary task we found it was quite bright which doesn't fit with the tyipcal conventions of a horror film, as dark settings are usually asscociated with horror, in our final horror film we decided we wanted the lighting to be a lot darker to fit these conventions. Overall, we have learnt how to compose a shot well and how to use a range of different shot types sucessfully to edit together well.
By Rebecca Foster.