Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have

learnt in the progression from it to the finished product?

Comparison

• Our Thriller “Difference” was created by both myself and my partner, Joe Howlett. However, our Preliminary Task was a short script created by our teacher, Mr. Johnson, and had nothing to do with our final product.

• Our Thriller is 3 minutes and 3 seconds long and the Preliminary Task is 52 seconds long.

• The reasons for the lengths of these videos are the purpose of the Preliminary task was solely to test the different editing techniques, e.g. Match-on-action, while our Thriller combines these editing techniques with different camera movements, e.g. Tracking Shots, camera shots, e.g. Close-ups, sound techniques, e.g. diegetic sound, styles of editing, e.g. Fade-Ins, speeds of editing, continuity editing and the conventions of the Thriller genre, e.g. Cliffhangers, Suspense.

What have I learnt?

• Since our Preliminary Task video, we had learned about the conventions of the Thriller genre through movies like Alfred Hitchcock’s North by North West, The Birds and Psycho; Collateral, The Manchurian Candidate (both versions), No Country for Old Men and Shifty. These conventions, as well as the terminology we were taught before and at the time we made our Preliminary Task video, helped us to create our final outcome of our Thriller, “Difference”. We also learned about Movie Title Sequences and Production Company Idents.

PicturesDifference Preliminary Task

Movie Title and Production Company Ident

Cliffhangers, Suspense and Action

Shot-Reverse-Shot

Fade-In Transition

Continuity Editing

Match-on-action

Match-on-action

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Shot-Reverse-Shot