Thriller Title Sequence 2010 Group 12

This is the prelim me and my group did before we made our opening titles for the thriller film. I think we have learnt many skills since we did this, as we were only just learning the buttons on the cameras, and we didn't know how to work the sound either, which we now know how to do.

We also learnt how to do better camera angles in our finished film, for example, over the shoulder shots, close ups of faces, shot-reaction-shots, etc. Also, there was a match cut in our prelim which i thought was very good, but the one in our final film was a lot better. Also, we didn't have a soundtrack or anything in the background of our preliminary film, whereas in the new one we could have had speech if we'd wanted, but we decided to mute it and stick with just havign a soundtrack, as, in our opinions, it worked a lot better than way and was much more effective.

The subtiles on the prelim are obviously there to let the audience know what we were saying, as we forgot to turn the microphone on when we filmed! This made the film look very badly done, as it gave it an air of 'art student foreign language film', which is not what we wanted at all!

The mise-en-scene in the prelim is virtually non-existant, as we were not told we were filming until the day we actually did, therefore we filmed in a classroom with just what we had on us. this proved to be very hard work, and so on our final coursework film we tried really hard with the mise-en-scene, especially in the fortune teller's room scenes.

The Reading was probably a lot better than this prelim, as we learnt a lot of things not to do when filming, but also a lot of things to do with the camera to make our film as good as we could. This led to our coursework film being edited better, and just overall being a lot better than this orginal tester film.