Evaluation activity 7 Jamie Hutton

Through are course of constructing are task, i feel that as a group we each have progressed using the different filming techniques. With the prelim we got to use and acknowledge a different variety of cinematography that helped us with our filming. More shots and camera movements were focused on to give a huge effect within our film. Our prelim was unprofessional as the camera was shaky but towards our film improvement has been made. Louise focused on editing throughout the whole task including the prelim. She eventually got to understand how to use editing to play effect on what type of genre the film is which worked very well within our task. As a group we followed the codes and conventions in our film to the selected genre; psychological horror.

We used the Mise-en-scene within our opening sequence more effectively than within our prelim, huge improvement was made as the use of lighting helped create the mood and atmosphere and could relate to the genre which would show the audience the representation of the film to be a horror. Barley any props were used within our prelim to give an understanding of what is going on where as in our opening sequence we used a number of props such as the phone, clock to show the time that she is there late etc.

In our prelim this is one shot we used using shot reverse shot showing a discussion between two characters. this is a very simple piece use of cinematography to do which was good for our prelim.

However after knowing and understanding how different types of shots are used to create effect for the viewers we used a panning shot in our opening sequence to illustrate the setting and character.

Jamie Hutton