PRELIM Exercise - MINE

Here is the finished product.

We enjoyed doing this match cut exercise, as it has given us a lot of practice in filming & editing, which will be very useful when it comes to filming our Thriller opening. However, we did face some challenges while editing.

LIGHTING PROBLEMS

After watching back all our clips, we realised that the lighting is not consistant throughout. In one shot, it is dark, and in another, it is bright. This makes the opening look off-balance and very unproffesional. We know that next time we film, we will make sure the lighting is the same throughout.

CUTTING PROBLEMS

We also realised that we did not plan our story board properly, and therefore, we did not get the shots we needed. When we edited the clips together, there were many jump cuts which made it seem very confusing. This also made our opening look unproffesional. We now understand how helpful it is to be extremely detailed when drawing our story board. Even though we thought we had been, it turns out that we could have been more precise. This also affected our match cuts, since the clips did not fit together. However, we did include a few very good match cuts in the opening.

CLOSE UPS

There is a lack of close ups in our opening, which would have really helped create atmosphere and tension. They would have also been useful to show the character's exact feelings & emotions. This is another thing we failed to include in our story board. 

After noticing all these problems, we decided that we will need to take them all into account so we will not make the same mistakes with our Thriller.