Thriller Conventions

Evaluation of Preliminary Task

After viewing our Preliminary Task I believe that there were both successful parts and bits that we could improve in with filming and editing.

I feel that our music timing was very successful as it cut as soon as I pulled the headphone out of my ear, the timing was very accurate. I also believe that our scene transitions worked well and our filming techniques were quite successful.We have a match on action shot at the very start of the sequence, which was part of the brief and we stuck to the 180-degree rule well, which helps the audience to understand who is talking and means that both eye lines of the characters work.

I feel that the sound at some parts were distracting, when I enter the room and speak at in two different shots, in the second shot the fan is louder than in the first meaning that it doesn't flow as well as we would want to as you are aware of the sound. If we could do it again then I think the use of a boom mic would be helpful to make the speech a lot clearer. We also 'lost' a dialogue clip therefore had to play about with what we had to improvise. 

However overall I believe that it was a good effort for our first time using the equipment and editing software and I am pleased with the outcome.

180 Degree Rule

Meaning

The rule states that the camera(s) should remain the same side of an imaginary line. The line is drawn perpendicular to the camera's viewpoint in the establishing shot of the scene. The rule enforces continuity of the film.

The rule should never be broken, unless for 'effect'. If you do break the rule it will leave the audience confused in a conversation. Crossing the line when filming over the shoulder shots shifts the person's eye line do not match.