By comparing our final film to our preliminary task it is very clear we understand editing a lot more now. I feel as though the preliminary task had less planning and so the characters weren't very believable, although by over working our final film we ended up changing the storyline multiple times making it hard for us to, again create believable characters. For the prelim task we only had to create a one minute long film and we had to film on the college property. The fact we were so restricted with our prelim meant that when these restrictions were lifted we were able to be a lot more ambitious with our opening, also the fact our main task had to be two minutes meant we had a whole extra minute to create something that seemed realistic.
I feel as though because we had so many options, my group became too ambitious which is the main reason our storyline changed so much. We originally planned to film our opening on Brighton beach and we were going to have a mother and her daughter in shot. We assumed we would be able to get an older woman and a child to be in our opening but it was highly unlikely and so we had to use me and Ailsa. We decided to use us as that meant we didn't have to rely on anyone outside of our group.
With the camera work i am now picking up on a lot more mistakes we made in the prelim task that we were able to see and prevent in the main task. Our framing in our prelim could have been a lot closer but we ended up with footage with too much background that was unnecessary and not relevant.
With our final opening i think we were much more ambitious with our camera angles as we had more knowledge of the effects of certain angles. We used a high canted angle so that the viewer would feel uneasy to represent how the character 'Nikki' felt walking into a therapists house.
Where as in our prelim task we just used simple eye level angles and didn't think about the effect on the viewer.
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