Evaluation of preliminary

This is the final project of our preliminary exercise.


We really enjoyed the work we did in the edit suite and particularly like the cut where it switches between Jordan reaching for the door and the door handle, into the room. It is good because the cut looks smooth and when th e door opens you can see Lizzy in the room. However, it does look slightly out of focus.

Something that didn't, orignally work, is that there was drilling going on outside the classroom, where we were filming. We didn't notice this until we came to the editing suite, made the cut and noticed the inconsistency in the sound. We corrected this by fading the sound out on one of the clips. If we were to film again, we would have liked to put in the actual music for the intro of 'Man I Feel Like A Woman', instead of just Alex's voice, to make it sound more complete and professional.

We did have some difficulties during the filming process for example, we went through and filmed the whole prelim excersise got to the editing suite and realised we had no sound, this was fustrating as it was all because we didnt flick the correct switch. however we learnt a valuable lesson and in future we will always remember to check the sound.

It has given us a taster for filming and editing and it will be exciting to do it for real when creating our thriller openings, now we have had a chance to practice techniques such at the 180 degrees technique, the over the shoulder technique, also keeping continuity throughout. Next time around we will have already made the initial technical errors and will be ready to get more creative. Think about costumes, settings, lights, music and make it as exciting, tense and atmospheric as possible.