Final Task

Brief

We were asked to make an opening to a thriller film (approx. 3 minutes). We were expected to use camera angles/shots/techniques and any other knowledge of film making that we had acquired from the AS Media Studies course and our own knowledge as well to make the best film possible.

Construction
After sorting out our filming location and the other aspects such as who would be starring in our film we set to work on our final task. Our filming wasn't as fluent as our preliminary task due to the fact we filmed it over a couple of days at two different locations and we had to work round the arrangements of our actor and actress. This meant that the ease of editing our preliminary was decreased, therefore we had to spend more time on the post production. 

Our main problem was the scene on the rooftop garden, now obviously we can't control the weather and when the wind decides to pick up, so when we were filming it was hard to tell whether or not the wind was going to ruin the audio. To try and avoid this we also filmed an alternative inside scene with Katrina committing suicide so we wouldn't have to go back if the audio was poor outside. It all went well until we had to shoot the scene of Katrina on the floor in blood, we weren't able to film this due to the fact that we were filming inside the Blue Fin Building. This was because we couldn't clean up the fake blood sufficiently the scene therefore this meant we couldn't use the alternative scene and had to use the outside scene.

In our final task you hear the wind at one point quite loud, it was worse than this but with a bit of fiddling with the sound levels we managed to make it less of a problem. The only positive of this is the fact it shows how windy it is and that the weather is not particularly good which fits with our pathetic fallacy (Emily is unhappy = bad weather).

The other thing we found was that our shots were all very still and there wasn't much movement of the camera, we realised this about halfway through production, after filming the second half of the scene up in London so tried on our second day of filming to incorporate some shots with a moving/non-tripod based camera. A prime example of this is the point of view shot where Ed walks into the living room to find Emily has gone.