Planning the prelim task

For the first lesson we planned out what we were going to do for the prelim task on a storyboard. Jack and myself both came up with several ideas about what we could do for the thirty second thriller clip, I came up with most of the ideas that we have used in the thriller while Jack illustrated the storyboard. We then discussed what the best camera shots that we should use to add tension to the thriller clip and how we could film the clip so that it looked as professional as possible. I first decided that we should start the clip with a character tied to chair so we would be able to put a spotlight over him to add tension and mystery straight away. This would also setup the scene well as the audience know straight away what is going on but wants to know what is going on and who is behind the man in the chair. Then we decided that the character should wake up causing the killer to come into the room, we decided to use a mask to cover the killers face as this means that we do not know who the killer is and keeps the mystery to the clip. He would the kick him off the chair and finally kill him, this would show that the killer is brutal and evil which is like many other thriller killers.  

Production

For the production of the thriller clip we decided that we should use one of the drama rooms as this would allow us to use the lighting that we needed to give the clip a mysterious and dark feel to it. This also allowed us to use different coloured lights such as red which is usually associated with thrillers and again helped to add more effect to the clip. 

As Jack and myself have no filming experience I chose to film, and do the lighting while Jack sorted the actors we were going to use in the clip and also helped to direct. When we started to film the first scene where we have the character awaken in the chair we found that the lighting had to be changed as it was too dark. We found this with most of the scenes that we filmed and used a more light red shaded light which allowed us to add a more evil side to the lighting. For the second scene we filmed were the character walks across the room I found difficult to film as there was not enough light to follow him across the room, so I changed it to pan out slowly to reveal the killer, this helped to add a mysterious side to the scene. For the last part of the clip I decided to change the angle and film from the victims perspective which allowed us to get a dark silhouette of the killer at the end which are used in many thrillers. 



Post Production 

After filming the clip I had to edit the thriller as Jack was absent so could not help. Through the editing stage I found it slightly difficult to add effects into the clip but was able to cut it down and put in fade in and out transitions which are usually used in thrillers. This helps to smoothly change from one scene to another in a dark way. I also chose to only cut the clip down to forty seconds as I do not feel that the clip would make sense or have a dark feel it if cut down to thirty seconds. I feel that I could improve the clip by taking longer to set up each scene so that the lighting and camera work would in turn improve, also if we had longer to do the task this would have helped to improve the quality of the clip.