Evaluation 7

"Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?"

The dark colouring of our preliminary task was quite similar to our final opening, however, we think that it was better used in the opening as here we aimed to create humour by being dramatic, whereas our opening intends to evoke an unsettling feeling in the viewer. The close-up used here can be directly compared to our opening; we use a head-on shot of Meg's face rather than one from the side as in the prelim. We think that this creates a more striking effect, and is therefore more suited to the dramatic nature of our opening.

We used a match on action to show Cassidy walking through the door, which we believe was well carried out. The transition was easier to create because the shot changed from a mid shot to a close up, meaning that the shots did not have to precisely mirror each other. However, in our opening, we had more difficulty as Meg's expression had to be near-identical in both shots. Therefore, a large difference between the filming of our prelim and our final opening is that we created a lot more footage in order to be able to find the best matching shots.

In our prelim task, as we were fairly inexperienced in making videos, our camerawork was not very smooth. As well as this, we didn't think to check the speed at which Cassidy was walking in the long shot matched the close up of her feet that followed. For our opening, we decided that the majority of our shots would be circling around Meg, to create a feeling of disorientation and so we had to practice walking around her in a smooth and even circle before filming our final footage.

We also had to use a shot-reverse shot in our preliminary task, which we decided to show as an over-the-shoulder shot in order to clearly obey the 180 degree rule. For our opening, we did not show our actors' shoulders in the shot-reverse-shot, although we did overlap the sound from one shot into the next, so that the audience feels like it is a complete scene. In addition to this, we used more sophisticated editing techniques, such as the blinking effect used when showing Rose's point of view in the second frame. We also blurred this shot in order to again create disorientation.