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Looking at the preliminary task, the camera appears accidently shaky and focus towards the camera's focus pull function seems ignored. Together, these make the film look poor quality and amateur.

In order to learn on and avoid these mistakes in the main task, myself and Dan decided on the use of a stronger tripod and a focus lens. The stronger tripod added more stability when dealing with filming outside to lessen the chance of shake and the focus lens allowed us to manipulate the camera's focus further to avoid low quality film. Ultimately, myself and Dan's preplanning for the filming location that we did before made us better prepared to achieve better looking film.

A wider variation of camera shots and movements were used in the main task in comparison to the preliminary task. Firstly, it is easy to tell that a lot of pans were used to act as a shift climax in the main task. Furthermore, as you can tell these pans appear stable and smooth rather than shaky. Secondly, we utilised our camerawork to avoid showing the faces of the antagonist and the protagonist. This allowed the theme of mystery to be presented something which is a convention of the crime, thriller genre.

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(An example of editing using filters)

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However, in the main task, editing was used to a high extent. Our prolonged time in the post-production stage compared to the preliminary task meant we had more time to experiment and learn. For example, myself and Dan decided to add filters to the film in the day-time scene, resulting in the colours bouncing for 'comic-book' feel which is appropriate to the crime, thriller genre. Furthermore, editing the brightness and colour during the flashbacks made them appear as if they were filmed at night, whereas we actually filmed them in the day.
My role as creating the sound also aiding me in deepening my understanding. I managed to edit the sound to suit a much more darker, tense tone by successfully changing aspects like tempo and pitch. Effectively, this resulted in the atmosphere created during the night-time scene to seem more fitting to the thriller genre.
Finally, we actually were able to add titles in the main task. Done by myself and Dan, creating these titles gave us an in depth look at both Premier Pro and After Effects.
Ultimately, our efficient use of the post-production stage allowed me to experiment more with editing in order to create a film more suited to the thriller genre than before.

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(The CCTV effect)

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The amount of editing in the post-production stage of the preliminary task was basic, consisting of only arranging film, adding sound, the occasional fades and this CCTV footage effect we decided to use to the advantage of the camera being up high.

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The Main Task

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Preliminary Task

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgH7WpdKsFI

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The mistakes I made in the preliminary task and what I have learnt from those in the main task.

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The mistakes I made in the preliminary task and what I have learnt from those in the main task.

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The main mistakes I believed I and my group made in the preliminary task were match on action and overall organisation:

Match on action:
This concept refers to the camera switching either angle or movement to result in a different shot of a scene before whilst still being able to seamlessly continue the action carried out on screen. An example of when this was attempt in the preliminary task was when my character opened a door, where the camera moved from one side of the door to the other. Watching this back I believe it could be improved as it seems that what is being shown on screen is a door being opened in two separate shots rather than two shots adding together to create a seamless action.

In the main task however it seems our use of match on action as improved. The variety of shots of the protagonist advancing into the house is an example of this. Look at this sequence of shots each shot seems to feel that it starts exactly where the last one ended. This seamless feel that was attempt in the preliminary task was therefore not achieved. The main reason why I think why this was avoided was ultimately planning the shots beforehand and the extensive use of editing in the post-production stage in comparison to the preliminary task.

Organisation:
My group's use of organisation in the preliminary task was lacking. For example, the actually filming stage took around four attempts due to constant interruptions that we didn't consider beforehand, leading us to alter are plans for filming. As well as this, our roles in the post-production stage were not specifically allocated to each individual. This was mainly due to us all wanting to try everything seen as this was our first time using the programmes but overall resulted in more time being taken to complete it.

On the other hand, mine and Dan's organisation was very effective in using time. For example, we even managed to finish filming in the space of two days thanks to our planning and our decision to split the roles in post-production also aided in using time effectively.