Looking back at the preliminary task I think that we have progressed a lot. We made the preliminary task very simple, without preparing and thinking as deeply into it as we did with the full product. We played around with camera shots and whether it was close up or a long shot. We practised the rules of continuity. We learnt how to angle the camera, and the best way to do it. Directing the acting we also practised which came in handy when we shot our real thing because of the amount of people we had to direct in the party scenes.
There wasn’t much preparing for the preliminary task, so when we planned for the full product, ‘swell’, we got much more into it and looked at every last detail. We looked at clothes, hair colour, and tone of voice and even what her room looked like. The panning in the preliminary task helped a lot because we also had to pan with Ashley in ‘swell’. From the same side of the room, through the door and sitting down, this made it a lot easier because we had done it before.
Because there was barely any editing for the preliminary task, when we had to edit for ‘swell’, we were quite shocked at how much work it was. But we also had to edit in music and make scenes black and white, so in fact our preliminary task was extremely different to our final product. We used diegetic sounds and non- diegetic sounds, diegetic when they were in the party room, even though we edited it in and the actors couldn’t hear it when filmed. And non- diegetic when Ashley was walking down the long flight of stairs.
For the preliminary task we chose to use natural light and when we filmed for ‘swell’ we chose to use lights or even take away most of the light, when we filmed the party scenes. But we used the natural light in the bedroom scenes because we started filming so early that we had a great morning sun coming in through the windows.
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