Sadie Breed Evaluation - Q7

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full task?
I feel that since our preliminary task we have learnt to compose our shots with more thought as we often had large spaces around the characters which could have been used more effectively.


I have also learnt the importance of mise-en-scene which was something we did not think about in great detail for our preliminary task. For our final task however we carefully chose the room so we could have access to a number of computers, something that we felt would show the character's obsessive side. We also thought about what would be up in the room such as maps of the 'victims' locations and pictures of them to create a sense of realism.

Also we have learnt how important continuity is for an opening. To achieve continuity we had to do a number of things such as having our actor in the same clothing every time we filmed, having the same items displayed on the white board and having all the furniture in the same place. A time where continuity was important was when we were filming the titles which we wrote on maps. To make sure the titles looked similar we marked out the exact position of where the maps were positioned so we could line each one up to create the same framing.