Looking back to your preliminary task, how do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to the final product?

Without a doubt the most successful area of our task was in editing. In our group, we were fortunate enough to have someone who was familiar with Final Cut Pro thus was about to shoot the sequence with an eye for the final editing. Without the editing the shots what we had filmed were a series of still shots or very little movement, the Bad TV effect gave significantly more movement than what we had shot. I also feel the intensity of the background music created tension in the piece, enhancing the title sequence all together.

Another thing that could be considered to have gone well was the pre-production planning. We had some initial idea changes but that shows advances in our ideas. Our research into killers and their backgrounds and how they’re portrayed in the media and film led us to being able to accurately create a character than could be deemed to be successful in our film.

The least successful part of our task could be considered to be the actual filming. We shot for far longer than we had first set out too, due to the hiccups we experienced when beginning to edit. The first camera we used was a poor decision on my part because the auto-focus was an apparent error as we couldn’t control what we wanted to focus therefore needing to re-shoot more than once with a different camera. Also as mentioned above, the idea changed a few times which led to confusion within the group but I feel this wasn’t too much of a down fall for the final piece.

Finally, I have learnt that pre-production and well thought out planning are handy in filming. Having the correct camera and knowing what you want to film saves a lot of time and means you can do the editing sooner to make your sequence look as good as you anticipate.