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.

Credit Lists

Credits Lists

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

Final Synopsis

With my group we decided that our final synopsis will be about 17 year old Janet is a quite lonely girl who doesn't have many friends or personal life. She's use yo being by herself and not needing to impress anyone. However when new girl Claire comes along and pays Janet a bit too much attention it becomes a strange feeling.

Claire has paid a peculiar interest to Janet and wants her to always be by her side. Claire's fascination for Janet isn't sexual but an obsession of her personality. They go out to a party and when Janet doesn't want to play along to her rules Claire isn't happy about it. Prier to this Janet had found multiple pictures of herself in Claire's bag; and she had started to have doubts about their friendship.

Claire decides she's had enough of Janet's behavior so she spikes her drink. Janet drinks it and wonders into the road, where she drops and dies.

Now innocent, quite, Janet is dead and there's no trace of Claire.

Treatment

Treatment on Prezi