Re-EvaluationAS COURSEWORK

For our AS coursework we had to create a t it le sequence for either the thri l ler or horror genre.

My group chose the thri l ler genre because the ideas we already had suited that genre more.

As the production went along we started to incorporate elements of the horror genre to make the sequence more ominous.

We came up with a basic plot that a man would go into the woods in search of a rumored ki l ler but would end up being fol lowed by the very person he was looking for.

We added an aspect of supernatural thri l ler at the end of the sequence by having the person he was looking for be a doppelganger of himself.

‘INCOGNITO’

Overal l I think the sequence came out looking how we wanted it to.

The plot was interesting but wasn’t too complex.

We built tension wel l throughout the sequence through use of different camera angles e.g. POV and through use of soundtracks.

The sequence ends on a cl iff hanger as i t would then transit ion into the rest of the film where the viewer would learn more about the plot, therefore making it an effective ti t le sequence.

I experimented in edit ing with a new style of transit ion that ended up being some people’s favorite part.

We met our deadlines.

WHAT WE DID WELL

The name ‘ Incogni to ’ was a mis take, at the t ime i t was good because our in i t ia l idea was to have someone wi th an under ly ing personal i ty that was ev i l . We had been us ing the name for so long that we dec ided to keep i t but now a l l i t does i s make people th ink o f those browser tabs .

Fi lming days weren’ t the best e i ther , we usual ly d idn’ t have the fu l l group there and we often ran out o f t ime be fore we could fini sh , th is would mean we would have to do more days of fi lming than we needed.

The length of the fu l l sequence was or ig ina l ly somewhere around 3 minutes. Cutt ing th is down was extremely d ifficul t and looking back at the 2 minute vers ion, I ’ve not i ced how rushed i t fee ls .

Sound was our b iggest i ssue, we had borrowed a profess ional microphone f rom the school but i t turned out that the on ly th ing we were given was the cas ing for a mic rophone . We didn’ t have enough t ime to get another one so we fi lmed wi th the inbu i l t microphone and the audio came out sounding bad. I had to edi t in a l l the sound for the sequence and because o f th is the audio i s less immers ive than we had firs t hoped i t would be.

WHAT WE DID WRONG

Microphone – I wi l l make sure that I get a microphone that actual ly works th is t ime but i f I cant get one then I wi l l make sure that I make the edi ted sound more authent ic or maybe use fo ley. I could a lso do th ings dur ing fi lming to he lp the audio e .g . sh ie ld the mic f rom wind.

Make sure I have a lot of t ime to fi lm – I don’t want to rush any part of fi lming th is year so i f I get an actor I need to make sure they are ava i lab le for the amount of t ime I need them to be.

Different shot types – I want to make more use of push- in shots as wel l as use a stabi l izer in any shots that require a lot of movement.

I have 5 minutes to fi l l th is year and I don’t want the sequence to be dul l or dragged out just to fil l that t ime frame. At the same t ime I don ’t want to go over l ike I d id last year so I wi l l need to make sure my shot l ist adds up to with in 10 seconds of the 5 minute mark.

HOW I WILL IMPROVE