Preliminary Task

Once Sian and I had filmed the footage we needed for our Preliminary Task we then used the software 'Final Cut Express' to piece all the footage together. Above is the video of our final product. The reason for us to produce a Prelimary Task was to get familiar with the how the camera works and to see if there is anything we could pick up on our finished piece that would help us with making our Horror Film opening better.

Something that we noticed was that the conversation in the Prelimary Task doesn't run entirly smoothly, therefore, if we decide to put any conversations in our film opening then we will have to ensure that this does not occur. A way in which to stop this from happening would to be to leave a longer pause between each person's line so that when editing the film together we can cut the clip easier.

In the Preliminary Task you can hear the background noise, this will happen when we film our Horror Film opeing. To eliminate this will have to remove this sound and add our own nondiegetic sound into the opening.

Another mistake within our Preliminary Task is that Sian looked at the camera for a split second, this can be done unconciously. When filming we need to tell our actors/actresses not to look directly into the camera.