Difference between prelim and thriller

There has been a big difference between our prelim and our thriller. We were not able to pick our own groups, this made it hard to adapt quickly to working with people we maybe had not worked with before.

Our prelim shots included medium shots and closeups with maybe one case of match on action or shot reverse shot, however our main thriller included a lot more than just these basic shots. We had long shots, closeups, match on action, shot reverse shot. This made it a little harder as we had not had much practice filming these shots.

The mise on scene of our prelim was very basic, all we had was a small room, with nothing really there and no real props were used. It is easy to tell how little time was used to edit our prelim compared to our thriller, we filmed on one day and edited the next day for our prelim and because of this, the editing does not look as good as it could have done, however it was also our first time editing so we were not 100% sure what we were doing. I would definitely say that the editing in our thriller was much more effective than when we did our prelim. I found it much easier this time round with editing our thriller because now we could use FinalCut Pro better. In our prelim task the quality of sound also wasn’t very good, some sounds were louder than others and we had some spill of us talking saying 'cut' or 'action'. In our thriller we were able to add sound effects and edit this in a way that all sounds were even, panned out to both ears and use compression to make sure that some sounds were not much louder than others. We even had a separate music score added after.

Editing the prelim and editing the thriller in terms of working together as a team I found completely different. I didn’t have the same group when editing my thriller but I felt that when editing the prelim it was a lot less stressful but I think that because there wasn’t a big final grade relying on it. Also in the prelim tasks because we got to choose our groups generally everybody went with the people that they got on well with and therefor had similar ideas and views to. When editing the thriller this was completely different because the groups were randomly picked and I found that especially in our group we had certain views on how our end product should look like and this sometimes lead to a bit of discussion or a bit of tension but I do feel that we managed to overcome this challenge. Below there are two screen grabs, one of the prelim and the other of the thriller, you can see yourselves the difference in quality and how effective or good the shot looks.