At the beginning of the year I made my first production, the prelimary task. This was a very basic shoot of a conversation using different camera angles. Since my preliminary task I have progressed hugely. In my thriller I have a montage which took hours of editing whereas with my prelim I had no idea how to edit and the proccess was a lot longer than it should have been and even then the cuts werent perfect. Now my editing is smooth and easy as I have spent so much time in the editing suite. In september we had no preparation for the task and used props that we found on the day whereas my Thriller took lots of preparation and we brought in our own props and hat to set up a set with a greenscreen with three tier lighting. We also set up in various locations like the woods, next to a dustbin and we even set up a stage area for the presenter of the show.
For our prelim task we had no preparation and had to use the props that we found in the editing room, only minutes before filming. For our thriller we had weeks of preparation. We organised what props we needed and we made a storyboard which went throughout each shot we were going to do, ordered and detailed. In contrast, for our prelim task we played it by ear and just shot lots of different shots and hope that it would look ok. Planning everything made filming a much quicker process because we knew what shot angles we wanted and therefore didn't need to film the same scene more than once.
My prelim task was extremely basic and its only feature was its dialogue. With our thriller we tried to sell through the visual. This required lots of after effects and also skilled editing to make the montages look visually spectacular. To do this we had to spend a lot of time thinking what kind of effect we wanted and then we went into after effects pro and took all the green screen shots and added fire in the foreground and background to give it a dangerous feel to the thriller.
When doing our prelim task I needed help setting up the camera, e.g. putting up the tripod and adjusting the white contrast. For our Thriller we rememberded everything we needed to do and set it all up. After the camera was ready to film we set up three tier lighting so that there would be no shadow on the greenscreen. With the prelim we used no extra lighting and we didnt do any editing to alter the look of the lighting, the background etc. whereas with our thriller we spent a long time changing contrast an brightness.
I did absolutely nothing to change the sound of the dialogue in my prelim task. However most of my time spent editing my thriller i was doin sound and music. I had to choose the music I wanted to use and then encorporate it into my thriller. To do this I had to use soundtrack pro and then import the edited version of the music I wanted into final cut pro. We also had to go through the sound of each clip that had dialogue and choose the right sound channel and then shange the volume to match the rest of the thriller.
One of the hardest parts of editing was using After Effect. This took a particularly long time because we had so many green screen shots. I mastered after effects pro quite quickly and I was soon able to add fire and explosions and gunshots. My prelim task did not require any after effects.
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