2 nd Prelim AnalysisIn our second attempt of the prelim, we
madesome improvements throughout the whole of the clip. We started
with a shot of Elsie walkingup the stairs, this showed a variation
of camera angles which was missing from our first prelim. However
Elsie reached the top of the stairs and appears to be walking
throughthe door, this is when we accidently cut off thetop of her
head with our camera work. This is amistake we must not make when
we film our proper opening of the thriller because the mark scheme
states that there must be acontrolled use of camera which frames
the individual character in the correct manner.
Another criticism would be that when Elsiewas walking it seemed
she was walking uitetilted and not in a natural manner, this
alsomust be addressed when we film our realthriller. When filming
our prelim before editingit all together we had to retake some
shots asthey looked unnatural or didn!t flow with theediting. An
e"ample of this would be whenfilming the shot#reverse#shot Elsie
had her finger on the phone $pointing to an ob%ect in one
shot&. When filming the ne"t shot wehad to ensure that the
finishing position of Elsie with her finger on the phone carried
onthroughout the ne"t shot, so it doesn!t look like it has suddenly
disappeared.
Another e"ample of continuity would be that inour first prelim
one of the characters lookedlike she had %ust appeared on a chair
rather than showing how she walked from the door tothe chair. When
filming the cinematographyand editing shots of shot#reverse#shot
andmaking sure we stayed within the '() degreerule we shot all
these sections separately tothem merge them together in our editing
styleof making it look like a consistent conversation.
