Post on the differnce between film trailers and openings.

The difference between Film Trailers and Film Openings

Film Trailers

Give information about the film

Fade to blacks are often used

Montage of clips

Shows sections that will grab the audience’s attention

Title/ Credits are at the end of the clip

Usually have a tag line

Institution logos are at the start

 

Film Openings

Credit all the way through

Film title towards the start

Introduction to characters or character type

Gives an indication of place/ historical or time period

Gives information regarding the mood and tone

Gives us an introduction to the theme tune

Gives us information about the genre

Creates questions that the viewer find intriguing

Shows patterns and types of editing that will be echoed in the film

Sets audiences up for the film

 

 

 Preliminary Task Evaluation

 

 The overall continuity of our short film is very clear as each shot flows smoothly to      another ,however, small sections of our piece lacked continuity these include: a change in props, from a mug to plastic bottle in the date scene, Holly wearing a black cardigan in one shot to a black coat in the next, Sophie wearing a cardigan in one shot to not in the next, and finally different extras in different shots but within the same scene. These continuity errors all occurred because we filmed the same scene with various shots on multiple days meaning not every detail was completely the same.
 Apart from theses slight faults ,which go unnoticed when watching the overall film, I think this piece demonstrates continuity quite well.

 

Throughout this film, we demonstrated various editing techniques these where a match on action  when holly walked through the


door, a 180 degree rule when Sophie and Nick were talking at the table and a shot reverse shot at the start between Sophie and Holly. We used these techniques in order to create a better viewing experience for our audience as its a change from actors moving to fit the shot to the shot changing to suit the actors. There was however issues with some of these techniques, one of which being with the match on action and that the dolly shook when tracking due to an uneven floor, this could have been improved by placing down a flat surface in order to create a smooth run. Another problem was that although an 180 degree rule was used it could have been more apparent through using a pan/ camera movement.  

 

In my opinion, I think our group worked well together, as we all came up with options and all agreed with the final idea and film produced. However we weren't as organised with actors and some had other commitments during our first run of filming creating some of the continuity errors found with in the film.

 

If I was to carry out this task again, I would try to improve the continuity of the product by filming each individual scene on the same day or making sure everything was the same as the previous day of filming. I would also spend more time in terms of editing in order to bring it up to a higher standard as our film was quite jumpy due to our lack in editing skills as it was the first time our group had used the editing program.

 

In my opinion, I think we planned our film quite well as we completed all paper work needed before it e.g. storyboard, shot list so we knew what we had to do and the order in which to do it. I think in order to improve our planning we could have done a chronological list of the parts we were filming so we knew what part we were filming and when. 

 

Within our piece, we used a couple of transitions which we used instead of cuts. We used the transitions in order to create a change from the traditional jump cut and to make cuts smoother and flow more easily into different shots. However some of these transitions were quite obvious and not smooth so did not create a flow between shots.

 

During this process I have learnt a lot about how to use the basic aspects of the editing software, for example using transitions, cropping clips and adding non-diegetic sound. Apart from the basics, I haven't learnt a lot of detailed things about this software but hopefully through experimenting and using it more in the future, my skills will improve.


https://www.youtube.com/embed/twXKAhmvZnU

 

Filming post

 

During the process of filming our piece I found it relatively easy to use the equipment, once I had been told how to set it all up. After a  basic explanation how of to set up the equipment such as getting the tripod to the right height and attaching it to the dolly, I was able to use all the equipment well and didn't face any major issues. One difficulty we faced when using the equipment was that the dolly wobbled when tracking due to an unsteady surface but this could have been easily fixed by placing down a smooth surface for us to track on.

 When filming we didn't face many problems apart from slight issues with timing and actors, due to tight filming schedules. For our filming we had one hour time slots so we had to make sure our actors were all available at the same time which at one point was unsuccessful as one of our main actors was used in another group, creating some continuity errors. 

Holly, Erin, Sophie Preliminary

 

 

 

 

 Preliminary Task Shot List

 

The images below show a shot list of our preliminary film, we made a shot list so that when filming we knew exactly what each shot should look like, the length and angle of it and the way in which we were to film it. Having a shot list meant that we didn't waste time when filming, trying to decide what the shot would look like we just looked at the list and followed what it said.

 

Preliminary Task Storyboard

The image below shows a storyboard of our preliminary film, we created this document so that we had a visual plan of the story of our film,what our film will look like and what each shot will involve. We were then able to use our storyboard when filming in order to be sure that our film followed the exact storyline.

 

 

 

 

 Preliminary Task Script

 

 

 

 

 

Name: Erin Parkhurst  Candidate Number: 9231