Preliminary task - Evaluation on technical skills

Evaluation on my own technical skills in my preliminary task

                 

I had to create a preliminary task to practice my filming/ technical skills through a short piece of a character entering a door and match-on-action of two characters sitting at a table having a conversation.

When my filmed piece was completed, I had to use an editing software called ‘Adobe Premiere pro’ to edit my filmed piece to make the piece flow and appear very effective and also erase any irrelevant parts.

I had to use many tools, one tool is the ‘razor tool’ I used this tool when I needed to cut off any irrelevant parts in my
filmed piece, for example, any pauses, mistakes or any longer bits that were not important to the piece as a whole.

I also had to render the edited film pieces together so that my edited piece was more effective and linked very well with each scene.

I had to create a preliminary task so that i could practice with my camera work and experiment with using the cameras, which was sort of a 'trial and error' task which enabled me to see what things I could improve on while filming.

As there are three members in my group, we all made an attempt on editing the same raw footage to see who's piece would be best editied. My group decided to use me edited piece as they felt I had the best editing skills in this piece and would be used as our final prliminary piece.

Questionnaire Ananylsis

Questionnaire on thriller movies – Analysis

Q1. What Thriller sub-genre are you most drawn to?	Tally Out Of 10
o Psychological thriller – E.g. Se7en	2
o Horror thriller – E.g. The Exorcist	7
o Action thriller – E.g. Air force 1	1
o Sci-Fi thriller –E.g. District 9	0
o Religious thriller – E.g.	0
o Crime thriller – E.g. Heat	0
o Drama thriller- E.g. The Da Vinci Code	0
o Political thriller – E.g. Enemy Of The State	0

Q2. What do you like about the Thriller Genre?	Tally out of 10
o Confusion	3
o Mystery	1
o Suspense	5
o Compelling Characters	0
o Hero vs. Villain	1

Q3. Out of the choices, who is your favourite thriller director?	Tally Out Of 10
o Martin Scorsese	0
o Alfred Hitchcock	7
o Steven Spielberg	0
o Quentin Tarantino	2
o David Fincher	0
o M. Night Shyamalan	1

Q4. What makes Thrillers appeal to you?	Tally out of 10
o Challenging Storyline	1
o Actors/Actresses	0
o Directors	0
o Interesting title	0
o Surprising Twists-	9

Q5. How important are props, costume and makeup in a film?	Props	costume	Make-up	Tally Out Of 30
Very Important	8	9	8	25
Important	1	1	1	3
Fairly Important	1	0	0	1
Unimportan	0	0	1	1

Q6. What is the most important element in a thriller?	Tally Out Of 10
o Setting	3
o Acting	1
o Special Effects	1
o Props/Costume	1
o Plot	4

Q7. For you, what builds up suspense in a film?	Tally out of 10
o Music	1
o Lighting	0
o Sound	9
o Camera Shots	0

Q8 Should the film have its story unfold fairly quickly or slowly?	Tally Out Of 10
o Quickly	4
o Slowly	6

Q9 How do you think the opening of a thriller should open?	Tally out of 10
o Chase Scene	0
o Everyday life	0
o Flash back	8
o Flash - forward	2
O Present Time	0

Q10. In the opening of a Thriller, how much of the plot do you think should be revealed?	Tally Out Of 10
o As much as possible	7
o As little as possible	3
o Not at all	0

Here is our questionnaire analysis, this is scores of feedback we recieved from people who filled out our questionnaire. The parts coloured in red are the answers fro each question that recieved the most scores and therefore we will consider using the answers with the highest score as a part of our film so that we are sure that our target audience of 12 years and over will be interested in our thriller movie.