Luke Evaluation - Question 8

How are the films different? Looking back at my preliminary task and comparing it to our final film you can immediately see a difference between the two. In the preliminary task our main mistake was the lighting, it was a huge problem for us as the location was shadowed out by the building surrounding and we ended up filming during the evening which didn't end well as majority of our shots turned out too dark. For example this is a shot from when we filmed our outside scenes.

As you can see its way too dark, we changed our filming tactics when it came to our final product as we realised it was easier to darken a shot than it was to actually lighten one, hence we filmed during the day instead. Also the street light in the shot makes a good effect however the light coming from it can sometimes make a weird line going down the screen, for example.

On the far right of the picture you can see a vague blue line, this was caused by the street light, to prevent this we decided to film inside when it came to our final product.





Straight away you can see changed in the two films, especially with the writing, as we changed our techniques on how we used the lighting and we decided to film in the day instead. Not only did we change the lighting but the whole camerawork in general was different as in our final film we experimented more and was more adventurous in the shots we used for example in our final film we used shots like canted angle instead of the conventional over the shoulder/long shots.

Our second picture shows our preliminary over the shoulder shot, as the first picture shows our more intriguing canted angle shot. We used this to help us improve our final horror film by allowing us to experiment and try different things, after the task we now knew what worked and what didn't work, we used this to our advantage whilst filming the final piece

Overall i believe that as a group and individually we have all learned how to use lighting effectively and how to use different camera angles to give off a certain effect, i think if we was to do it again i believe we would be able to make it even better due to the knowledge and experience we have gained from doing both the preliminary and final task.