Our task ; and conventions of a thriller

In our last lesson, we learnt about a new brief. This brief was, 'The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of 2 minutes'.

We then got given a 'AS Media mark scheme' which tells us what this brief will be marked on and the different levels. We were told that our work must be completed up to the standard of level 4 which was the highest level and consists of execelence in our; Research and Planning, Practical work and our Evaluation.

After we got given that, we sat down as a class and thought about the conventions of a thriller. I was getting mixed up between the two different genres thriller and horor so we sat down as a whole class and discussed what the differences where between them.
One big difference between a thriller and a horror is the violent graphical scenes. You can see the horific bloody scenes when people get murdered in a horror but in a thriller, it is not as graphical. It is more about the tension and suspense.

Understanding of the task set

The task that we got set was to make a short couple of minutes of a movie making it look realistic as possible. In this film we had to include the following editing techniques of continuity editing: Match on action
180 degree rule
Eyeline Match
Shot Reverse Shot

In our film, it must include all of the techniques above and it could not break the rules by not following the techniques.

Planning Process

As I was away for 2 weeks the class finished planning what kind of ideas what they wanted in their shots so I was behind on that. Fortunately for me, my partner Jacob, planned a good story board of how he wanted his shots to go. When I come back, we did not need to improve Jacob's story boards as they were already planned out to a high quility. Because of this, it made our filming go alot easier as our ideas were spot on.

Reflections on editing

Our editing process went very well due to the fact that myself and Jacob already knew roughly how to work i movie. We did not finish the editing during class time so Jacob voluntered to continue edit our movie, as we only had a little more to do so he done it through his lunch time. As we went through the different shots, we saw that things needed changing to make it realistic as possible. We cut parts of the shots out to make the previous shot and the next shot blend in together. On the last day of editing it was quite hard to use i movies as it first of all did not play our movie and then it kept on freezing and skipping parts out. After a while it went back to usual but for half of the lesson it was playing up.

Reflections on filming

The filming process for us was alright. We only had 2 lessons to get as much as we could get done and we done well because we finished the filming during the second lesson so we started on the editing half way during the second lesson. For our shots we needed two locations, a hall way and a class room. The hall way that we filmed our first shot was right outside the class room and there was minimum distruption and then we found a class room along the corridoor so it was okay. As we did not get to finish the filming during the first lesson, we did not know if the class room that we used was going to be used for the next lesson but fortunately for us it was not so we got to use the same room again. Overall the filming went alright.

WWW and EBI

WWW:
Overall I think that Jacob and I worked well together. As this was my first lesson back and I didn't know what to do Ms Lynch and Jacob both explained the task to me and I understood it straight away. After the explanation, Jacob had already drawn up his idea's of what we was going to include in our film which I thought was very good as then we could just go and film it. Also, we only had two people in our group and we worked out ways on how to make our filming work. The reason for this is because in our idea's, we needed two people acting at the same time in nearly all the shots. In this case we did not have any body to film so we had to put the camera in a position in which we could film a good shot.

EBI:
The main even better if in this task was if we had more than two people in our group. The reason why it would be better is because if we had three or four people like all of the other groups, we would have come up with more idea's with the shots and also if it did not look right (like the acting did not look real), then we would have more chances of spotting it, if some one was filming it and looking at it from a different angle.