Task 7- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When looking back at the shooting of our preliminary task I can see that we have actually improved quite a bit. Firstofall in terms of stylizing our sequence, which is something which we didn't do in our preliminary task. It is hard to compare as both products are just so different since one has an actual story line and one is a thematic opening sequence of a thriller.


In our preliminary task we have a lot of really fast cuts which distracted the audience from the story of it. We chose to make the cuts that fast in order to keep up the continuity since one of our actors kept moving in between the different takes although we kept telling him to stay the same. I think this is part of the reson why we then had the idea of not using people in our sequence at all or at least someone who could stay still and do the same thing in every take. Many of our shots in our main task are stills which were just setting up certain transformations. The camera is only moving in one of our shots where we have a tracking shot of good fruit changing to bad fruit through a wine bottle. In order to make the still shots more interesting and to make our whole sequence a little more stylistic overall we added in moving writing, which was representing diary entries. 

In terms of sound we had our actors speaking in our prelim task underlaid with sound from the room in which they were, creating a very realistic and purely diegetic use of sound. In our thriller we only used non diegetic sound and added in some ambient music and a few layers of sound of someone speaking. The soundscape we created was designed to slightly disorientate our audience and to further increase the style of our sequence. 

In terms of our use of colour in the sequence we changed the hue and saturation of all of our shots to create more vibrant cholor schemes. This resulted in the fact that throughout our sequence we go from purple, to blue, to purple, to red and finally to black and white to represent our protagonists state of mind throughout the sequence. In our preliminary task we just used the pictures as they were, not adjusting any of the colour which made it quite plain, showing a great contrast to our main task.