Tuesday, 4 February 2014

AS Thriller Evaluation

For my AS Media, I had to create a two minute opening to a thriller film, after carrying out some essential research and planning. My group consisted of myself, Ayesha Bhatti and Lilian Amaning. In order to complete this task we had to allocate the following production roles between the three of us in our group;

Actors – to be filmed

Director - the person who is in charge of the making of the film.  

Producer - responsible for the 'financial and managerial aspects of making a film'. 

Director of photography - controls the camera and films everything.

Sound technicians - plans the sound used.

Screenplay Writer - writes the script for the film.

Mise-en-scene Coordinators - plans & prepares lighting, hair & make-up & Iconography etc. 

Editors - Edits the footage filmed, to finish the film and to create an effect for the audience. 

 Out of all of the above roles, I was appointed the roles of director of photography and the main editor. I was responsible for following the filming schedule and filming a specific shot, whilst guiding the actors into place and advising them what to do and portray. As well as carrying out the editing with my group by suggesting and completing different ideas to make the footage more conventional. Having completed the tasks required for both of these roles I learnt how to use the editing software ‘Final Cut Pro X’ more confidently, helping my group with cutting our footage as well as putting in the transitions and credits well. As my role of director of photography involved me filming both in the forest and underwater, I found the two experiences very different, but interesting. I learnt how to produce steady shots with or without the tripod and this helped the filming on the day go faster.   

I think my group worked well together, as we each listened to each other’s opinions and tried any suggestions we each had, so that everyone was happy with the end product. We helped each other in making decisions, which helped our thriller to be successful, and this is because our thriller film is conventional, but is also unique.

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