When creating the continuity task I found difficulty in working with the camera as I had not used one professionally before, therefore I acted in the sequence instead. I also found difficult editing as my work was not up to the standard that I wanted it to be. We used a variety of shots in the continuity task to prepare us for the full product of an opening sequence including shot reverse shot to feature both characters featured in the scene, two shot, over the shoulders shots, medium long shot and moving subject walking into space. This allowed me to see how each shot would look when it was put into practice in a scene. We used the 180 degree rule in this shot as Stephanie and I were sat at a table but ensured that the camera only revealed the half of the room we were in. When editing I found difficulty in accurately cropping the pieces of film that we needed to add to the sequence. I edited some of the sequence together but found that the pieces of film were a couple of seconds out of accuracy or delayed in what we really wanted. I learnt from this in progression to our final product. When editing our opening sequence I found that I had learnt from my mistakes and was able to edit clips of film to a high quality to ensure the continuity was smooth. An example of this was when I edited the walked of the stalker into a room in his basement, he walked in from the doorway and the camera switched to showing another angle of him walking into the room however the sequence continued from where it left off in the last shot. We used the 180 degree rule in this shot as we only revealed everything the camera could see from through the doorway and nothing behind the doorway or the doorway itself. When filming our sequence Stephanie took control of the final filming however I was able to try out shots we could use on location as then we could decide as a group what we thought.
We originally wanted to film in the Guildford Cathedral as the setting would have worked well for our genre as a Psychological Thriller as we thought that it would create an eerie feel however due to technical reasons we were unable to do this. Instead we filmed in St Pius church in Merrow and found that the intimate church and graveyard worked in our favour. The intimacy between the stalker and Sammy without them being in direct contact left the viewers on the edge of their seats and question what their relationship would be like as the film progressed. This linked to the genre of Psychological Thriller as it makes the audience think about what is happening and developed their confusion.
As we didn't use any music in our preliminary task and only used diagetic sound from the filming we did, the first time we had to work with sound was in our final product. I think that our greatest difficulty in this was trying to find music that would fit with the genre and the sequence that it had to go with. We settled on using three different sounds for our opening sequences, two of which were diagetic. The non-diagetic music used created a creepy feeling for the viewer as it is incredibly un-easing.
Over the shoulder shot from final product opening sequence compared with over the shoulder shot in preliminary task.
Long shot from final product opening sequence compared with medium long shot from preliminary task.
This showed how we used the skills we used from our preliminary task to our final product. The quality of the shots are also better which acts as a perfect example of how our filming quality developed as we filmed our opening sequence.
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