Prelim Task

Prelim Task- Delusion

For this task, I worked with Olivia and Mollie. We shared out the work between us but came up with the storyline and script together. I made the storyboard, whilst Olivia made the finished script and plot and Mollie came up with the horror film conventions. To make sure our film was how we wanted it to be, it was important to plan what we were doing first. We made a storyboard of our plot and created a mind map of our ideas. Once we had planned exactly how we would make our video and what shots to include, we used Prezi to make a finished presentation of our film. I had never used Prezi before so it took a while to get used to using it. At first, it was quite hard to navigate around the presentation and put everything in the correct place but it soon became easier to use and I think the website is a great was of displaying work.
We used a camera to film the clips and edited the film on Adobe Premiere. I had used Adobe Premiere before when making the Dancing Bears/ James Bond video and the Juno film which meant that I understood how to use the programme and could focus on editing the film how I wanted it. The camera was easy to use and upload, so we were able to focus on the shots rather than working the camera. There were many things we had to consider when making this film, like how much time we had, who would play each part, where it would be set and how it was going to be edited.
Overall, I am pleased with my finished sequence. I think it included many of the shots and portrayed the horror genre well. The editing and lighting was good and it made the film more scary. I thought the music and dialogue suited the film and we worked well as a group. However, to improve in the future, I would include a few more effects when editing on Premiere and would abide by the 180 degree rule when the two characters are talking. I would also make the film longer as our sequence was quite short. This task was very useful in finding out how to make a film. I could improve on my editing skills  and get used to recording the different shots on the camera.

Other comments

To improve our film, we gave everyone feedback and were given our own feedback. The first question that was answered was "is the genre evident?" and we were given a score of 9 out of 10. The feedback we were given was that we used good music and the lighting suited the genre well. I edited the whole film in black and white so that it was scarier and the music helped to potray the genre of horror.
Secondly, we were given the feedback question "did we include all the shots, dialogue, match on action and tracking?". For this, we were given an 8 out of 10 because we included most of the shots we needed to and the dialogue was appropriate and interesting. However we did not abide by the 180 degree rule when the two characters were talking.
For the feedback question "how did the camera, editing, sound and mise en scene work together?", we were given a 7 out of 10 and everyone said that the sound and lighting was used well. They said that it made the film scary and jumpy and showed that it was a horror well. However they also said that the dialogue was a bit hard to hear over the background noise, so we would have to make sure that there is less background noise in the future or the dialogue is a lot louder.
People said that our story was good but it was a bit too short and could have been longer. For our script and story we were given an 8 out of 10. For our Prezi and presentation we were given a 9 out of 10.