Main task production

My original prelim task was extremely basic in comparison to my thriller opening sequence.
In the prelim task we were allocated one room for our location whereas in the thriller sequence our location varied from outside to inside and various different shots around our school campus were taken therefore I learnt how to set up the camera quickly and adapt from location to location.
In the prelim task I had a small role that only lasted for an hour as director whereas in the filming of the sequence I played the role as director and producer as my group switched roles to ensure we all got a taste of the various different jobs that are needed for a making of a film. The thriller required a lot more hard hands on work whereas the prelim task did not.
The lighting in the prelim task was very basic it consisted of one bright light to sharpen up the room whereas the lighting in the thriller changed with each shot. We used blue sheets to create a cold, blue ghost like effect, natural sunlight, various orangey, red lights for the inside shots
In the prelim task we were given a structured storyboard and told what to do whereas in the thriller sequence we were made to create our own story board and plan our shooting day completely on our own with no assistance.
The actual filming was completely different between both tasks. The prelim task was only one hour, whereas the thriller took nine hours and we used tracking gin our thriller and used various different shots.

My media skills have developed as I now have a more sophisticated understanding of the editing process. Our sequence has developed its own style which consists of slow cuts which involve plenty of fading to ease from world to world, the ghost world and real world, our main theme. We created a restricted narrative where the close shots draw the audience in without revealing too much we also blended a few quick cuts to surprise the audience. Opposed to a fast paced action sequence with fast cuts between two situations.
We started the editing process with logging our shots into a log bin we had two separate log bins one for the real world shots and the other for the ghost world shots. We then lay out our ghost world shots on the timeline. However we could not do the same immediately with our real world shots due to weather conditions, we had to wait for a sunny day to take all the real world shots and this comes up rarely in England. Eventually we lay down our real world shots on the timeline. We then edited our shots in together getting the right style and pace. The pace was normal and our style was very ghostly and fantasized we created the feel of ghostly fantasized world through our editing.

The music and sound that we used was diegetic and non diegetic sound. We found our music from sound track pro and edited to make our thriller unique and interesting. The music fits in with our thriller perfectly and creates a ghostly cold and scary effect through various different tones. We used no ambient sound from the shoot day. We used birds tweeting and blasts of wind to enhance realism this was part of our diegetic sound we also used a drone as non diegetic sound. We researched other horror films and many contained the drone sound in their soundtrack. It creates tension and builds up thrill. The music makes the audience feel scared yet excited. The careful placing of the right music has lead the audience in the direction we wanted them to go we want them to feel thrill and terror and the music successfully enhances this.

We have used titles and graphics in our sequence our sequence starts with a distributor followed by a production company our following titles are inkeeping within the mood of the production we have the same font style throughout our sequence.