Evaluation question 7- looking back at your preliminariy task, what do you feel we have learnt in the progression from it to the full product

Looking back at your preliminarily task, what do you feel we have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 

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Oli: A major thing that we have definitely learnt throughout this whole process is the concept of directing. Starting this subject, we had a general idea of what it took to direct and the basics idea that the majority of the film came down to the director. It wasn't until filming of our thriller opening started that I saw how important and technical directing was. It isn't just shot types and angles the director must worry about, it's also cast position and posture; are the actors in the right place, are they standing in frame, the lighting; how bright it needs to be and where it needs to come from and  sound; how loud or quite each film aspect needs to be. The director must know everything going on around him, not only what he needs to do but also what the rest of the group is in charge off. The director's job of to be in charge of all the film work



Marta: I personally feel that we have definitely learnt about organisation and planning- basically everything that comes down to production. I think that the preliminary task gave us a taste of what this was all about and gave us a clear picture of what we need to do for our actual thriller piece. For the preliminary task, we only had a brief amount of time to figure everything out and even after we had, we had to scrap our whole idea and come up with something different in a matter of minutes due to one of the members of our group, who was to play a key part, not being able to attend. This time we had much more time and tried to all take parts in production, taking roles to figure out exactly what locations we wanted to shoot at, who was to edit, what we would include in the film and what even where to get our actors. We were constantly learning how to make this and that better, faster, more efficient.



Ben: We definitely learnt a lot about editing and the different processes needed to make a good film. Timing and pacing is extremely important in making a certain feel and mood. The pace of a scene/shot can make a film seem like an action packed adventure film, with short, fast shots merged in together, or a romantic comedy film, with long shots of slow action.
Editing a film can create different emotions and atmospheres, sometimes comes across as simple whereas other times psychologically twisting. We've learnt that by synchronizing the visual and audio cues in certain ways, viewer's perception can be warped. Filmmakers can adopt psychology and misdirection while editing films to make the viewer assume something is happening when it isn't. The use of psychology tricks audiences into believing the film being portrayed is real and into feeling emotions about the story. This concept is something we have learnt and tried to employ in our own film.