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Preliminary Task

This is my preliminary task were i practised different filming techniques such as: the rule of thirds, comply with the 180 degree rule, use a shot reverse shot and match on action. This task was a starter to get comfortable with using a camera.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In our task i have used the film 'phyco' to gain ideas from for the part of the villain. I noticed that the criminal in this film has music following him whenever he walks or runs, the relations of a female being murdered in alfred hitch-cocks film and my film a similar because the criminal takes a woman captive. Both females are doing stereotypical things such as folding up clothes or in my case working in the kitchen.

Our task is different from the blockbuster hits as it has has no edited lighting or filter, our film is completely natural lighting. Usually in big films there would be some sort of speech or credit explaining the story line, we have not got this to add suspense the only form of writing is the credits of the logo and the names of actors.

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Before the preliminary task i was not confident enough to use a camera. But through the lessons i learnt methods such as the 180 rule, the rule of thirds and shot reverse shot i became a lot more able to film. To make the preliminary task look more creative i used close ups and typical shots. Although these points helped our task become more creative there were fault's such as changes of backgrounds and different angles that were not corrected. The music added ontop of the film helped rid of some sounds that we did not want in our task. Other faults including two different lighting as one day we had to film in a school kitchen with no windows but it was added into a scene filmed with windows. This task has helped make me more confident in understanding the rules of filming and the use of a camera.    

Further Casting

When choosing our actors we need people to meet our expectations, the male in our film would preferably be quite bulky and threatening. In our actual film we have used Lewis Broughton to be our criminal. He was wearing a mask which made him look more intimidating. With the female we used Marcia and based her in the kitchen to make her look more innocent.

• Looks
• masculinity
• innocence 
• threat
• gender 

setting

The place where our film was shot was at Marcias house, this location was right because it was near a main road meaning it goes with the duration of the story board.