Pre Production: For the prelim animatic we had to plan out and draw a storyboard that would be used as a way to visualise our idea and our vision . When briefed on the prelim we were told to make sure to include certain things such as : the character must open a door , dialogue must be shared between characters , there must be a match cut , shot reverse shot and the 180degree rule . When creating our prelim storyboard animatic we had to think about using different camera angles , where and how we would show the match cut , shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule . One skill i think that's very crucial when you're in the pre production stage is looking ahead , planning and team work . I believe my group did all three and this is what i think we took on board when planning for our final thriller . As we were using this experience as practise for our thriller opening we thought that we would add our Korean inspiration into the prelim by using all the knowledge we had built on Korean ghost stories . I learnt that if you don't plan , make a storyboard or research then your not likely to succeed .
Production: When it came down to filming we chose to film in a public children's park that is right next to a church which we thought gave off a spooky feel to the prelim . As i was the camera woman it was my responsibility on setting up the camera , make sure the floor is even and that the camera focus was clear . I found it slightly difficult at first to make sure the camera was set up properly but after a while it all came back to me . However one thing i noticed on set and after filming was that in some shot's people (who weren't meant to be there) were in the shots which in general is something we could not let possibly happen for our media opening . That's another thing i learnt : to chose a more secluded location/area for the thriller .
Here are 3 screen grabs of where and how we decided to do a match cut , we had Kiah are main character walking then disappearing then reappearing . As you can see in the first shot in the background there is a guy walking, by the time the match cut gets to the third shot he's more visible which on the whole looses the effect the match cut was supposed to give . When filming for the thriller as yet again i was the camera woman i made sure that no one or anything that wasn't meant to be there was there . I learnt that these little mistakes could turn what would of been a professional looking opening to an something amature looking . By the end of filming i looked through on the camera to check if i had followed my storyboard and used a wide range of camera shots in different camera angles and had followed the requirements. Also when we were filming we thought about recording some foley sounds for our prelim however after recording it we noticed that it didn't go with our prelim footage so therefor we decided as a group that for our final product we weren't going to record any foley sounds.
Post production: When it came down to editing our prelim we did so on final cut pro , at that stage we only new a few basic editing skills such as adding a few effects , some fade's etc . When editing and picking out which clips we were going to use i made sure to include the match cut even thought unwanted people were in the shot , we had to work with what we had which is important as we had no more time to film . By the end of editing i didn't really learn that much on editing however as the weeks went on i learnt how to add filters , split clips , add more effects and overlap clips . At the beginning of the prelim i didn't know what the 180 degree was but now after going through the prelim i've learnt that the 180degree consists of two characters , one character is always on the left whereas the other is on the right at all times , no matter what shot they must have the left/right relationship .
Across both productions i've learnt how to use the mac confidently , final cut pro to edit clips , soundtrack pro to add sound but most importantly to work as a team , plan and to look out for everything and anything that might effect your final product in any way .
We overlaid a few clips to give the scenes a ghost like effect. We put two of the exact clips on top[ of each other. We lowered the opacity of the higher clip.
