Hi, my name is Jade Dibble and this year I worked independently to create a thriller opening sequence. Initially I was part of a group of three but due to complications and disagreements in the group, I decided to work independently and thus took on the roles of filming, planning and editing. I enjoyed being able to express my creativity and have a physical representation of my ideas.
My sequence follows a disturbed, friendless teen who uses social media to harrass and frighten her ex friends as a form of revenge, I followed the themes of internet catfishing and the growing obbsession and dependency with social media. You will find the first draft and final draft of my opening sequence below.
I really enjoyed this project and hope you enjoy watching.
Thank You.
Friday 12 May 2017
Sunday 7 May 2017
Evaluation Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Editing
Throughout the process of creating my full product, I have a much more extensive knowledge of editing software and editing techniques. From the preliminary task, my ability when it comes to editing has grown immensly, and I am now able to identify editing techniques typically connoted with the thriller genre and apply them to pieces of film. During our preliminary task and the continuity exercise, my editing was not smooth or skillful, but I am now able to produce good pieces of film. Due to the fact that the only dialogue in the piece was a recorded voice over, I had to learn how to remove background noise and remove sound altogether from the camera recorded clips, and layer sound over clips.
Camera
When I was part of a group and we began filming our original piece, we didn't take into account the appearence of our camera shots and issues with lighting, as we were filming outdoors and pimarily at night time. When we watched back over our camera shots and saw that they were too dark and the quality wasn't good enough or up to the standard that we wanted it to be, and so when I decided to work independently I chose to create a narrative that allowed me to film in the daytime in settings with the correct aesthetic. During the preliminary task, my group and I only used medium and long shots and didn't use a variation of different shots, whereas in my final full product I used a range of shots including panning shots, extreme close ups and over the shoulder shots, and I have learnt to identify the effectivness of particular shots in thriller.
Narrative
The initial narrative my group and I decided on was social media based as we wanted the sequence to appeal to a young audeince by focusing on modern contemporary themes. The online YouTube community is one that is vastly growing and popular with young people, and so we chose that to be the basis of our narrative. However, when I began working independently I altered this to the use of social media and the "catfishing" trend online. This change in narrative turned out to be even more contemporary and easier to film, and through this process I learnt how to effectivley storyboard an edit storyboards, edit shots together and script write. I also had to write a monologue and learnt how to effectivley portray the narrative through the monologue voice over.
Overall, I learnt how to incooperate the the typical conventions of thriller within my own piece and effectivley research, plan and execute filming and editing.
Editing
Throughout the process of creating my full product, I have a much more extensive knowledge of editing software and editing techniques. From the preliminary task, my ability when it comes to editing has grown immensly, and I am now able to identify editing techniques typically connoted with the thriller genre and apply them to pieces of film. During our preliminary task and the continuity exercise, my editing was not smooth or skillful, but I am now able to produce good pieces of film. Due to the fact that the only dialogue in the piece was a recorded voice over, I had to learn how to remove background noise and remove sound altogether from the camera recorded clips, and layer sound over clips.
Camera
When I was part of a group and we began filming our original piece, we didn't take into account the appearence of our camera shots and issues with lighting, as we were filming outdoors and pimarily at night time. When we watched back over our camera shots and saw that they were too dark and the quality wasn't good enough or up to the standard that we wanted it to be, and so when I decided to work independently I chose to create a narrative that allowed me to film in the daytime in settings with the correct aesthetic. During the preliminary task, my group and I only used medium and long shots and didn't use a variation of different shots, whereas in my final full product I used a range of shots including panning shots, extreme close ups and over the shoulder shots, and I have learnt to identify the effectivness of particular shots in thriller.
Narrative
The initial narrative my group and I decided on was social media based as we wanted the sequence to appeal to a young audeince by focusing on modern contemporary themes. The online YouTube community is one that is vastly growing and popular with young people, and so we chose that to be the basis of our narrative. However, when I began working independently I altered this to the use of social media and the "catfishing" trend online. This change in narrative turned out to be even more contemporary and easier to film, and through this process I learnt how to effectivley storyboard an edit storyboards, edit shots together and script write. I also had to write a monologue and learnt how to effectivley portray the narrative through the monologue voice over.
Overall, I learnt how to incooperate the the typical conventions of thriller within my own piece and effectivley research, plan and execute filming and editing.
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