Task 7 - Preliminary task

In our preliminary task they told us exactly what to do; they gave us the storyline and text to it. Also told us how to use the camera and which camera shots we should do like over the shoulder or close-up. Different was our Thriller shoot we did everything alone like Storyboard, text to it and choose the camera shots we wanted to do.
Our Storyboard didn’t fit anymore in our new idea, so we worked without and it actually worked very well. On the beginning of the day we got all the props like pens, a chair and a table. Our set was already there a small room with a glass wall on one side. We got our actors dressed and gave them make-up, for example we made from the young girl the eyes darker and the face whiter so she looks scary and mysterious. We wanted to shoot all our shots in the day and any extras we could fit in. The first issue was in the studio itself, we thought the set would be a lot bigger to allow us to take the wide shot but we hat to change our wide shots into bird-eye-views so that it could become our established shot The other big problem was the amount of time we had was the amount of time we had in the day to do all the shots.

In our preliminary task we were told to do over the shoulder, close-up, wide shot and medium shots. And we were told what kind of story to shoot. Whereas in the main task we developed our narrative from scratch, we had to think about how we wanted to tell a story, we had a storyboard which involved text, storyline and camera shots. First we had another idea and did already the storyboard for it. The idea was about a man who killed women to get his wife back, on the end he killed his little daughter because he thought his wife is in her. Still the pentagram played a big story which is still like this in our new story. Which is about a young girl who is has the devil in her, and a police man keeps her in his office. The whole time she is drawing this pentagram and on the end other police men are finding out that she wants to tell where the danger is in different cities. We found it much harder to come up with our own idea rather than the preliminary task which was given to us.
In our preliminary task we just used the basic shots rather in ours were we did much more difficult shots. An example is our fist shot from birds-eye.
Also a big difference was the sound; in our preliminary task we didn’t used sound at all while in our main one we used dark music on the end to make it more interesting. We had a problem with our ambient sound because there was a loud high-pitched tone throughout the filming, but we didn’t realized that we could get rid of that sound during we edited.
Actually we learned a lot during the whole process of filming for example how to edit and how to put sound into it.