1.Continuity editing: vary distances and angles, pans, steadicam, handicam, cutaways (motivated cut to cu).
2.180’ rule: ensures correct perspective, shot reverse shot, over the shoulder shot. When could you break this rule and stop the audience becoming disorientated?
3.Two lines of dialogue: consider diegetic sound. Conventional of genre? Enigmatic? Part of narrative?
4.Opening door: framing, cus?
How did you create a creative interpretation of the brief?
To start with in pre-production we sat down and worked out how we could put a short piece together that included all the elements in the brief. We found it was easier to think of a storyline first so that we could picture the elements of the brief in our piece as we talked.
During the editing stage, we added a soundtrack that we thought to be conventional of the genre but also fits with the narrative. We cut and edited several shots for the continuity editing, particularly in the Point Of View shot.
What was successful? What wasn't so successful?
We found that some of the camera angles we tried out worked a lot better than we anticipated. This gave us more confidence to be a lot more experimental with the camera angles while filming our footage for our opening sequence.
The acting was an element of our preliminary task that didn't work so well. This highlighted the potential problems in our opening sequence as thriller movies are expected to have strong acting to make the storyline believable and engage the audience, and added pressure to find actors for our opening sequence.
Well done Yasmin, some very valid comments.
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