storyboard and analysis of prelim


Analysis of the Prelim

In pre-production of the Prelim task, we watched examples of previous students’ prelims which helped us pin point error. One example was a student’s prelim where they filmed a girl walking up the stairs and then the next shot was her on the bottom floor. This helped us make sure our prelim flowed correctly between each shot.

We also had Year 13s advise us on the prelim task, which we learnt what certain shots had to be included into our prelim.

During the production of our prelim we realised the problems we faced was background noise and footage, as people kept walking into the shot and students were running around shouting. This has helped us for our main Thriller as we have thought more deeply into the location and setting, to make sure there are no disruptions or footage that does not fit the Thriller for example public walking through the shot.

The filming of the Prelim took much longer than expected as we had to keep re-doing the shot when distractions came or not fitting footage. We also had to make sure the shots were taken from the exact angle that fitted the previous shot; this slowed us down as we had to look over previous footage.

If we could do anything different we would probably do a storyboard of the prelim before the task to help us know exactly what to shoot and what works. We also would change the location of where we were shooting, to a much quieter place. This will help us when it comes to shooting our Thriller.

During post production, in editing, we learnt how to write over the footage this would be useful for the title of our Thriller. We also learnt how to put transitions into the film properly.

When watching back the prelim task the finished product actually looks better than our original ideas as editing helped improve it dramatically, through flow and inserting extras such as writing.