Thriller Title Sequence 2010 Group 12

Our group done a match - cut, over shoulder shots, shot reverse shot and different camera shots for our preliminary task. This was a mini clip of practise shots to gain knowledge and understanding about what is expected from the actual trailer and also to get used to the cameras.

The editing in the preliminary clip in my point of view was okay. However the final trailer had several match cuts which were much better. As our skills on using Final Cut Pro improved, we started to get better editing skills and better scenes.
After a while of producing the preliminary clip we had relaised that the clip wasnt fully edited in the way that we are able to do it now. I believe that the preliminary task has a big affect on how we filmed, orgainsed and edited our thriller title sequence.

Ive realised that the camera could have been used better and is not as good as it was on the final title sequence. We could have used extreme close -ups and extreme long shots etc. Luckily this is one of the reasons why our final outcome is better than our preliminary!

We did not use any sound on the preliminary because we didnt realise that the sounding wasnt working. Instead we wrote down what the characters had to say! I dont think thats its our fault that we wasnt aware that the sound wasnt on, but to make the preliminary clip better, we could have used voice overs to create an effect rather than just writing it down. Again this has helped us expand on our knowledge in the long term!

For our mis-en-scene in the preliminary scene we didnt have much. Although we were in college we could have moved out the ways of some stuff, but we never thought about how serious the mise-en-scene could be at the time. However we did have some props such as the scarf to tie the girls hand and mouth and we used a red marker to create the 'bloody' look on the other character (atacker!).
We have improved on this on our thriller title sequence as we had a lot of things for our mise-en-scene such as candles, clothes, cards, candle holders, bangles and some others. Once again this made us realise that we had to have a variety of things that are placed infront of the camera on purpose to make the scenes look realistic.

I think the preliminary task has a big affect on helping me and my group get better for our final draft for 'The Reading'. We gained knowledge and got better and editing, camera work, sound effects / music and the mise-en-scene.