When comparing the two, there are very significantly major differences. The titles in the preliminary task were very basic and looked as though we had spent no time on them at all. As you can see, they look unrefined and as though they do not have a relevant theme or genre to them. Whereas the film opening titles on the other hand look a lot more professional and relevant to our genre.
During the editing process of the preliminary task, we were unaware of the technical side of premier pro so we simply went to the ‘titles’ section and found a font that looked presentable. I can still say that this was a learning process for me as I would not have known where to find the icon that allows you to add titles onto footage.
Further, I do not look back at the preliminary task with regret because we were just beginning to learn about the technical side behind premier pro.
I can feel positive about the preliminary task because I know that were I to do one again, it would look a lot better and much more professional. From this I can understand that I have made progress and learnt from this project.
For the film opening, we used After Effects which is much more advanced in its titles and effects. We found that we could manipulate the titles to do pretty much whatever we wanted them to do.
To present our production company ‘SLACC Productions’ we used a yellow lightning effect which represented our company in a high class dramatic way and portrayed them as being of high importance. I feel that these titles were so much more effective than the previous ones.
Major improvements were made concerning filming. In the preliminary task, there were some shaky shots and background noise could be heard.
In the final cut of the film opening, we cut out most of the sound apart form when Cameron and Cleo are running and laughing up the stairs and when Chloe is tearing up Cameron’s love letter, so noise pollution would not have affected us in the same sense.
The sound that we did use in the film opening was relevant and clear sounding, whereas some of the sounds in the preliminary task were irrelevant and neither here nor there.
When looking back and comparing the two, I can see that the preliminary task has some accidental mistakes and errors whereas the Film Opening has deliberate aspects such as the shaky camera angles, sound and costumes.
Continually, for the preliminary task, our characters were not given time to select costumes or appropriate outfits as we filmed it all at school and so were in uniform. Whereas for the Film Opening, we filmed at our chosen locations and dressed our actors in appropriate clothing connective to the genre. This made our film have a much more real feel about it and also made it a lot more interesting for us a group to film.
You can see that we built upon our preliminary task in our Film Opening. When looking at character representations and portrayals, we decided to have a sinister job interviewer interviewing a nervous applicant.
We portrayed this via the characters actions, for example, Lakeisha is constantly fidgeting with her hands and feet to show how nervous she is, and Cleo, the interviewer is very strong in her presence and uses her eyes a lot to show her intolerance for Lakeisha’s wet character.
Connectively, we used some of these techniques in our film opening. For example, Cleo’s authority is shows through the way she carries herself and her promiscuity is shown through her dress sense.
Chloe’s insecurities and anxiety are shown through her smoking the cigarette and the tearing up of the letter.
Finally, Cameron’s masculinity and blasé attitude toward his girlfriend is portrayed through his decision to cheat on his girlfriend so casually.
Another thing we learnt as a group form the preliminary task was how to successfully shoot different camera angles and shots. For example, we used a shot reverse shot and match on action shot in our film opening and we also used these in our Preliminary task. I doubt these would have been so successful without the practice in the preliminary task.
I feel that much progress has been made since the making of our Preliminary Task. But i also feel that without the Preliminary Task, the film opening would not have been as successful.
Overall, i am very pleased that i can compare the two and see that as a group we made positive progress.
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