Our preliminary task; director's commentary overview
Main task: From creating our preliminary task film, to creating our final product, I feel that my skills have truly progressed and I have quickly learnt various different skills and techniques throughout the process.
The location in our first film was extremely bland and uninteresting; we didn't take enough consideration into our location and didn't realise how much the location could contribute to the effect and atmosphere of a film. Through our research of the thriller genre and the development of our skills throughout our main task, we were aware of the importance of the location by the time it came to creating our final product, helping to improve our product's quality and appeal. We were also aware of how important characters are to a film when it came to creating our final product, we knew that we needed to make our protagonist appear innocent and vulnerable in order to build deep emotion and tension and cause our audience to feel empathy towards the character; this method had been found throughout our research in various thriller films such as flightplan, the fugitive and mission impossible.
Our script for our final product was planned in order to help construct a devised film that linked and flowed correctly. The planned script helped our film to flow better and meant that our group didn't struggle trying to think of dialogue from scratch without enough consideration. This level of planning made a significant difference to the creation of our product and the final result that we managed to achieve; in contrast to our preliminary task, which was poorly organised in regards to any kind of script.
We also decided to use a soundtrack throughout our entire final product; including an ambient soundtrack throughout our first location (a kitchen scene) in order to reflect a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere. In contrast to this, we used a fast-paced, dramatic soundtrack throughout the forest scenes in order to create a tense, uneasy atmosphere. The technique of using soundtracks throughout media products in order to create a certain mood significantly added to the quality and the standard of our final product. We learnt that soundtracks could easily be imported onto our editing programme "final cut pro" and then embedded into our product. We sourced both of our soundtracks by finding royalty free music on YouTube and selecting which ones were most appropriate for the scenes throughout our film.
Throughout the process of creating our final product, we also learnt how to use certain light effects/adjustments by exploring the features on our chosen editing programme; final cut pro. We took advantage of the many adjustments that could be made; using effects such as "vignette" and "bokeh" flashing lights. Our skills soon developed in the area of editing and soon we were easily making adjustments that would contribute to the quality and appearance of our film.
Finally, we were able to create professional looking idents through our new grasp of editing software by the time it came to editing our final product. I feel that these idents really added to the professionalism of our final product and allowed our film to reflect many of the thriller films that we had previously looked at by conforming to the method of using atmospheric idents in order to introduce both our film and the content within our film.
All of these methods stated above contributed to the mood, atmosphere, quality, content and appeal of our final product, I feel that my skills have significantly developed through research, experience and technology from the point of my preliminary task and the skills that I have learnt have led to the creation of a final product that I am utterly pleased with.
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