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Skills audit: filming and editing preliminary match cut excercise

For our Preliminary match cut exercise we had to create a short film of someone going to someone and having a short conversation. The requirements of our film was a match-cut, shot reverse shot and the cameras had to obey the 180 degree rule.
The name of our film was ‘starr nine. We didn’t think too much into the story line but we decided to have a basic one just so our film had a bit of narrative. A girl was running into a building to meet some onto to give them something precious. Whilst filming we came across difficulties, because we were filming Jasmin running up the stairs through the window but there was a reflection of the camera crew. So we had to change the angle and the high to the camera so it minimised the reflection. We took several shots of jasmine running up the stairs so we were a bit to create good match cuts. We filmed jasmine running up the stairs from the front, from behind and her shoes. We wanted a variety of shots. One of the match cuts we used in our film was Jasmin running up the stairs through the window then her running up from behind then a clip of her running up from the front. We were still new at using the software so editing it to make a slick match-cut was difficult for us. The timing on the match-cut was not good and it speed up during it so you could tell another clip was being used. We used the razor tool to help us do our match cuts, and to cut out certain parts of the clips we didn’t want.
We found it quite hard for us to make our film flow , so we had to cut quite a lot of bits out to improve this problem this made our film a lot shorter than we originally planned. Our shot reverse shot involved close-ups of the two characters in the film. We had close ups of their faces as they exchanged dialogues and gestures we cut from one character to the other, we done this whilst obeying the 180 degree rule. When filming we realised the camera didn’t have a ‘Boom’ attached to it so the sound quality wouldn’t of been great, so we had minimal dialogue in our film ‘You got the stuff’.

We also added sound and titles on this film. We used Live type to create the titles. We had a plain black background with white thin writing with a faint white shadow. This title created an eerie mysterious effect and I think this worked well for our film. The sound was basic, we created it on soundtrack pro. The sound we composed repeated for the first half of the film we had the sound effect of a shot gun when the titles appeared I think this shocked the audience and kept them alert.
Overall I think the filming and editing of this film went reasonably well considering we have not had a lot of practice with the software. If we was to do it again I think we should of filmed a larger variety of shots and we should of added more titles.

List of sub thriller genres

The following are thriller sub genres that I have looked at:

• Action Thriller

• Conspiracy Thriller

• Crime Thriller

• Disaster Thriller

• Erotic Thriller

• Legal Thrillers

• Medical Thriller

• Psychological Thriller - this genre is one of my favourite genres, second to Action thrillers. The most recent psychological thriller i have watch is the film 'Shutter island' starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is highly rated for its distractions within the film to totally mislead the audience from the truth/expections if the film. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a FBI agent who visits a psychiatric hospital on an island alond side his collegue to investigate the case of a missing woman. In the end Leonardo DiCaprio was infact a patient at the Psychiatric hospital and the missing woman was his wife whom he killed. his collegue was also a doctor on an island monitering his mental illness.

• Supernatural Thrillers

• Action Thriller - This is my favourite thriller genre, lastest film i have watched of this genre that i remember properly is 'Taken' starring Liam Neeson as a former agent going on a suspence quest to find his daughter who was kidnapped whilst on holiday with her friend by Arabian thugs to use them for sex-trading in france. Me and my group liked this film alot and may create our own version to it as our Thriller opeining.

Evaluation

Question 6 - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product.

evaluation question 3&4

this is a thriller opening from harrow college called Cairo it made a total of 2,630 views and maybe more on the way. if we were to reach that amount we would have to publicise our work by possible posting it up on on social networking sites also by promoting it ourselves.