Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have

learnt in the progression from it to full product?

By Gaaron Clarke

Our Preliminary task

Our thriller opening sequence

In the early scenes of our preliminary task, we used a match on action shot to show me walking into a doorway. I walk in from an angle showing me from the outside cutting to a shot from me in the inside. This makes the shot continuous however we the shots are not completely accurate as the first shot shows me with my hands still in contact with the door yet in the next shot, they are not.

The scenes above are from my thriller opening sequence which show one of my cast looking at a grave with grief from an angle

that is looking at him behind the grave. The camera then cuts to a scene of him looking at the grave, viewing his legs and torso, from

a side view. This type of match-on-action shot is much more improved shot as the cuts are more fluid and also the actor is smelling the rose and the next shot shows his arm descending

toward his leg.

We also used editing in this scene to show the rose’s true vibrant colour against the dull black and white background. This signifies

the rose’s importance and makes it more attractive while also representing love.

In the scenes consisting of the ninja training, jump cuts are used constantly between each scene to create adrenaline and the face paced music adds to

this effect. This was a challenge to do as we had to time each scene with the music and we had to film the character performing different acts from

different camera angles. This makes the audience gain a wider perspective of the setting.