Friday 12 December 2008

Our first practical filming session was to create a thrilling card game consisting of two characters and a pack of cards. The aim was to create a suspensful atmosphere and overall tense feel to it using camerawork and editing. This was of course, practice for the real thing- our very own thriller for our coursework.

With camerawork all went well though it could've been improved if we used more of a variety of shots (high angle, low angle etc.) and if we used the tripod consistently throughout. The reason was because there were close up shots of the protagonists and the group decided to do it manually instead of distorting the quality by zooming in. Although, our most successful shots were our close ups showing the character's expressions and emotions though they weren't exactly stable as we did not use a tripod. Our long shots however were not as successful as it showed the setting which demonstrated a not so thrilling environment (the college).

Editing went fine after we had cut the scene's that were not part of our thriller (laughing, general mistakes)

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