Evaluation Of Post Production

In our preliminary task we used basic shots such as over the shoulder, wide and close up however when shooting our thriller we used more complex shot such as panning which are much harder to shoot espeacialy with panning because you need to get the timing exactly right.

The editing in the preliminary task was relitively simple because all we had to do was follow the storyboards so it was not difficult to figure out the order all the shot had to go in and there was a scrit which made editing also much easier, however in our thriller we did not have a script and the storyboards were simply a guidance. In the preliminary we just had to cut directly into another shot which is not hard to do and we did not have to use titles. In our main task the editing was more complex because we had to use fades, lots of sound effects, not to mention adding in the sound that we had recorded on the day of your shoot like the table falling over and glass smashing. In the thriller you had to cut in a certain way to build tension to keep the audience at the edge of there seats where as in the preliminary the cutting did not have to be in a scecific way because you were not trying to build tension.

Sound are important in our thriller because we do not have a script. We used sound FX to double up sounds to make some sounds sound like real objects, for example when our main protagonist falls into the other room the shoot is pitch black and the only reason the audience knows what is going on is because you can hear a table fall over and pins and glasss smashing on the floor this sound is diegetic.

Our group decided not to put the titles during the sequence of our thriller but to put them at the beggining and at the end because during our film we want there to be a build of suspense and tension and we felt that the titles would ruin that. Our opening sequence titles were slow however when the naem of our thriller comes up at the end the cut from to the shot because to that is fast making the audience want to know what happens next.

All of our choices have been chosen to appeal to our audience. The whole point of our thriller is draw in thrill seekers, so hopefully we have rewarded with our opening sequence, the sound and editing reflects our target audience directly as it is for horror junkies, and we edited the sound and edited the whole sequence with this in mind. We want this to appeal to the fans of Saw and Hostel, therefore with having a series of close-ups, POV shots and keeping it in a claustrophobic setting we were able to mkaintain the tension and drama which are a prerequisite for the horror genre.