When I started the preliminary task I felt that I was limited to how much I could make it mine and how in control I was. This was due to the fact that we were given our story board and script, and had no decision in them. The only factors of the preliminary task that we were in control of were the location and the mise-en-scene. But after we had filmed I was introduced to final cut editing this was completely new to me but I picked it up quite easily so that when I came to my main task I was very confident on the program But I found that when it came to the main task I had to learn how to use a variety of new skills. Firstly I had to learn to create a storyboard this was not as hard as it could have been as a lot of the script was improvisation and the shots were mostly basic medium close ups as the majority of it was filmed to look as if it was a video blog which meant the shots were the same but we still had to story board the shots of the killer as they were not done in this video blog format and we used a variety of shots. Although our story board was relatively simple for the shots where we were filming the killer I did find it difficult to get the correct mix of different shots because I only had the knowledge of shots that we had learned in = class and had never experimented with different ones before as in the preliminary the shots were not very varied and consisted of close ups, medium close up and wide shots for example the POV shot in the main task was new to me but I found that it worked very well.
For the preliminary task we told the story through the use of dialogue this was very basic and common so we wanted to do something different in our main task. This is where I was introduced to after effects. After effects would help us to tell and visually communicate a story to our audience. We needed this because the majority of the dialogue was irrelevant to the story, for example; the audience do not need to know what Angel3323 did last summer but they need to know that she is blogging and that someone is watching and stalking her and we did this buy showing her webpage with her video blog and tracking out onto the green matrix which was supposed to represent the virtual world and the way it links to another computer. The after effects were also used to use to show text being typed on the computer and when the audience read the text and picks up on the fact that it is being typed by the characters being shown they will know the killers intentions.
I also learnt about lighting and how important this was to create the effect we want. In the preliminary task we did not change the lighting and just used the light that happened to be in the room at the time but in the main task we spent a lot of time thinking about the light. We had to improvise methods of getting the lighting effect we desired with the blogging shots of Angell3323 we used some blue florescent strip lighting to give the effect that she was being lit up by the light of her computer screen and with lester727 we used clear colored plastic sheets and put them over a single bulb which we positioned in a certain place in the room to give a shadowy effect over the objects in the room and on his face.
The sound aspect of the main task was very different to the preliminary task we used Foley work for the typing sound and we used sound effects for when we reduce the sound from the video blog and introduce an electronic sound. This was not necessary in the preliminary task we did not need to add any sound and only used sound recorded on the set.
