Prelim Film Evaluation

The planning stages

The shotlist and storyboard helped us to film our prelim because it gave us a base to work on so we could follow them and they would allow us to save time by not having to think about it on the spot during the filming.

There wasn't that much change between planning and filming because there was no need to but there was some changes in the editing. We added a filter onto the film to make it darker as the footage appeared to be quite bright after being filmed. As well as the filter, we had to cut some of the footage to make it look more connected to show continuity.

We didn't face too many challenges but a notable one would be that we had to include all the required shots. This was not difficult alone but the challenging part would be to make them obvious because the ones we included were not immediately obvious which meant that we had to edit them to make them more easily seen.

The task that we found particularly difficult would be creating our initial idea because we had to make a film that would have elements of originality since there will be many ideas that have been reused from other films of the same genre.

The prelim has made me think about whether our idea was good since it could become a horror film due to the elements that we included are seen in some horror films. Also, it has given us an idea of whether certain elements we will use will be effective or not for our real film. The prelim has lead us to use restrictive camera work and perhaps non-linear plot.

After completing the filming, I was required to edit the film which made my skills using the Final Cut Express software improve because I did not know how to use many of the functions on it. Also, my camera work has improved a little because we used some cameras angles I would not normally use if I was the director.

In our main task we will not use narrative because it is difficult to create an atmosphere that will keep the audience hooked while trying to reveal too much about the characters which we feel the audience should discover along the way as the plot advances.

We did not really gain influence from the prelim but it has made us think more about using different and suitable camera angles and movements.