Idea Gathering

In today's lesson, I looked at examples of the preliminary exercise from other groups at a different school. This allowed us to see what is expected of us in the task, as well as gain some ideas for how to be creative and unique within the boundaries of the task. It also allowed us to see roughly the level of quality we should be aiming for.

We also has an opportunity to note the other groups' use of the conversation to establish thriller conventions such as the enigma, which is an idea we hope to include. Also, we saw examples of different and creative uses of the match on action in some of the clips, differing from the typical door opening match on action. gain, we hope to include a more interesting use of match on action in our own preliminary task.

However, we also learnt to avoid some problems we found in the other preliminary tasks, such as abiding by the 180 degree rule, as we found other preliminary tasks seemed to accidentally break it. Also, some examples used transitions that seemed out of place, such as a slow fade, as thriller films tend to use quick simple cuts instead.