Our prelim task was much more simple and easy to do both the shot choices and editing, the planing for the prelim was little as we only had a script and we didn't know were we would be shooting the task so there was little mise en scene in comparison to the thriller, our thriller took much longer in terms of pre production planning as we had to think about the fine details of costumes and script in order to create the desired mood and themes in our thriller. the planing for the thriller was set design, costumes, script, casting and locations of where we were going to shoot the thriller needed to be decided, the planning for the prelim task was just finding out where we were going to shoot it and we were given a script and actors the lack of planning and time can really be seen in the prelim tasks.
Since doing the preliminary task, I feel as if I have developed my film making skills significantly as a result of the challenges presented in the making of 'Aftermath'. we used a range of different shot types to create the wanted mood and create an atmosphere, we put together far more complicated sequences of shots, such as the crane shot really helped to create a narrative as we drew the audience into our thriller, were as in the prelim we only used a basic range of shots and told the story through the script. We choose to use the different shot types in the thriller this required a long time spent on planning so we got every shot we needed and didnt waste time.
In the prelim we only used the basic sound which we left, we didn't change any of the levels, were as in aftermath we had to choose between the boom mic we and the mic on the camera we then had to split the sounds from each mic and turn it into stereo which is relatively easy but takes time and patients in order to pick out the best sound, we then had to level the sounds so it was even through out and raise bits of significant sounds like the click of the tape recorder, we also used music and sound effects to create the atmosphere like gunshots, we didn't do any of this in our prelim tasks. All of the Non-diegetic sound had to be put in at specific places in order for it to match the narrative and the diegetic sound from the speech had to be carefully matched to the movement of the actors mouths.
