Our preliminary task was very basic and we did not have much input in it. We were given a storyboard and were given instructions to follow it and we had to find two actors and then we took turns filming it. We got a set given to us which was in the studio and we had one chair and a light hanging above, it looked very mysterious. We had a camera on a tripod which we filmed the shots the storyboard told us to. This was basicially getting us used to the equipment.
This is much different from our thriller as we had much more involvement for example pre-production planning like finding a location and actors and we made up our own storyboard which was made by a person from our group. Finding the location took a lot of careful planning as we had to spent time researching butchers which are near and easy to get to and we also had to see if they would let us film there which some of them didn't. We had to organise our shooting day very carefully as well to make sure we got everything right and we had everything we needed. We knew exactly what shots to do when we arrived at the location and we knew how we were going to film them for example what angle the camera would be at and where we would put the camera. It was the same when we got to the studio to film the rest. The reason for the studio was that we made it to look like when we walked into the "fridge" in the butcher it lead to the set in the studio. We had a lot of planning to set up the studio set. We had a worktop with one light so that it looked mysterious and sinester giving a scary effect to the thriller. The shots we did were more complicated than the preliminary task so we were learning more on how to do different shots.
Another thing we did in our thriller was editing as this we did briefly before but doing our thriller we learnt in dept how to edit so we learnt a new skill. Editing was very time consuming i found but it was fun learning how to use special effects and adding sound and how to alter the speed of cuts for example we made quick cuts of meat being ripped apart to add to the effect and atmosphere of sinester and to make it scary. We had to watch over the thriller again and again to make sure we got it perfect which is why it took so long to do. We used a lot of close ups to disgust the audience as most as we could so it could attract our target audience. Continuity was difficult to manage when editing as we had to make it perfect and make sure it made sense when moving onto the next shot.
We had no dialogue for our thriller as it made it more scary. We had to mute what was recorded at the time such as us telling eachother what to do and we had our photographer we had to mute. We had diegetic sound such as picking up a knife and choppping up meat with a loud bang to scare the audience and make them shocked. This made it more realistic as it would be loud if you really chopped it up. We also had a general soundtrack which was just air conditioning which also added to the sinester/fear effect to the audience. This is also realistic as he would have air conditioning in the room anyway. We also added a city effect at the beginning when he was walking into the butcher to add realism, such as cars passing and birds. We used pro-track and itunes to find these sounds.
The last thing we had to do was titles/credits. This was much easier than anything else and took far less time. We put titles such as actors and production names and our group's roles for example i was production designer. Our titles we made more interesting by alternating the size of the text and we also added a fade in and out effect. Our title for the name of our thriller "Rancid" we put in large text and on a black screen to make it look scary and mysterious. We did a small amount of credits as we did not need much and our thriller was not very long so we did not want to fill it with credits as the audience would not concentrate on the picture.
Looking back at the preliminary task we have progressed a lot in media as we have learnt much more useful skills and we have got taught how to use different programmes to do with editing the media. We have also learnt how to be more organised and we have learnt we need to work as a team to get the work done, and we have met new people.
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