Question 7Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you

feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Use of locations

Classroom that isn’t very suitable for the narrative of

our preliminary task which was about drugs.

This area was specifically chosen for our storyline.

Changes in costume

Use of props

The teepee and the large number

of trees is a typical representation of a

camping site.

Hoodies, trainers, boots...

Normally ideal clothing for a camping trip.

Costume reveals aspects of a characters

personality.The scruffy look connotes laziness or even deviation from how others feel like

they should be dress.

Costumes used were casual wear

which didn’t correspond with the narrative or their character

types.

From this we learnt to plan ahead and let the actors know what

we want them to wear specifically.

We did not have suitable props to work with. that related to the

message/idea we wanted to get across

to the audience

A test shoot was created

beforehand to confirm that it

was appropriate,

We went to extreme

measures to buy and acquire

desired props that were also

great in terms of being vampire conventions.

Action Match

From the preliminary task I learnt how to properly set up the camera and the position of the character before changing the shot so the

it matches the movement of the next shot The action match of the

opening scene again includes the main character leaving the shot at the right side of the camera and then returning into the shot from the left side in the next shot

so that there is no unprofessional pause between the change.

The action match of the preliminary exercise

includes the main character walking up the stairs from two different angles. I was able to put

this together but identifying the number of

steps she takes to match it the step she’s on from the

next angle.

Continuity shot

The first couple of seconds displays the use of continuity shot as the camera follows the campers walking in a

particular direction without any cut.

In the preliminary task, we did not put our recorded

continuity shot into the final video due to some acting and panning with the camera that

had gone wrong.

However I inserted a short clip of it into the final.

We used the unsteady camera as an

advantage for our opening sequence and showed it in a way to make the audience

connect with what is happening.

A tripod was used effectively in both of films.

A tripod was used but not to the best of ability in terms of panning.

A tripod was not used to get the effect that we wanted and could not

be used as we did not have a track for it.

Planning for opening sequence

We were prepared when it came to what days and who we were filming with as we put up a schedule on the group blog for us and the actors to see anytime they wanted. This made filming successful as were all prepared and organized a day before filming.

Scripting

Overall we have 4 drafts of the Abandoned Camp script. Each time we improved upon the dialogue and we had to change some of the names of the

characters as there were some drop out and some additions.

Draft number 4 is the one we used script on set for the actors to know their lines.

Research into vampire horrors

All three of us look at various vampire related films and series. For example; True blood and Let The Right One In which is the Swedish version of Let Me In.We’ve individually done annotations and comparisons of some and we talk about representations of gender, use of sound, mise en scene and editing.

Research into vampire scripts

I looked at 3 different scripts for vampire films. Shadow of the Vampire, Interview with

the Vampire and Sucker: The Vampire. From these I was able to work out and

understand the layout of scripts in general and I was able to present what I learnt into my

draft of our vampire film. I also learnt that scripts have similar

conventions. For example all text is in capitals, dialogue is placed in the center, etc.

Storyboarding

I did 2 drafts of the storyboard. The second one includes all the

changes we did before and after the final filming day.

The storyboard allowed us to reconsider the shot types and made

filming a lot quicker as we could easily find out what scene to shoot next.

For our preliminary exercise we did not have any written evidence of planning because of the limited time we had to think of an idea and to go shoot. This made

the task very hard as we had nothing to rely on if confused about what to film next so everything was improvised.

We learnt from this and made a lot of effort in the planning, organizing and storyboarding for our opening project so that we did not experience the same

problems.

Dialogue

For the preliminary exercise we had no dialogue or any sound at all. That way we’d focus on what we want the audience to see (mise en

scene). Any communication between the characters where done with facial expressions or actions.

In our production we only had a few lines of dialogue.

We did this because it proved to be affective by the preliminary

task.

From our very few lines of dialogue we made sure that most were significant to the

narrative.

For example; “There’s no signal!”

This shows that for the rest of the film they are alone in

the forest and they can’t call anyone for help.

"Its alright, not what i

expected.."

“What happens next?!”

“The titling is really good!”

What others have said

“You should make the

rest!”

“It’s awesome.”