EVALUATION 7) Looking back to preliminary tasks, what do you feel you have learned from the progression form it to the full product

The first task I encountered consist of my group to create a short thriller movie inspired by a deck of cards. We were inspired by the movie Memento and the style of editing in reverse, which were also seen in our final movie and also in this task. In this movie we played with the lighting to reinforce and set the mood of a thriller. We used a lot of close ups to show facial expression, over the shoulder shots to demonstrate the atmosphere. These shots are also used in our final movie which were practiced earlier using this movie.

Then we made another short film, which was a basic task however it consisted a lot of editing therefore allowing us to create influential scenes such as the match cuts in our final movie. This match cut exercise test us on our editing skills before creating our movie, and therefore we were ready to use our skills by the time we create the final film.

The match cuts and reverse editing were an important factor in our final movie, as it emphasizes the story of our protagonist, and also from the match cuts that we practiced during the prelimanary task we were able to conduct a perfect match cut series. However there are some parts in our final movie that I was not happy about, for example the part when our protagonist is walking towards the dressing table, and there were no cuts in between when i could have used lots of match cuts in between

Here is a clip of our final movie, I think that the match cuts here are perfect, and it matches perfectly with the split screen. The close ups in this split screen shows how much we've learned, we were able to do two different characters doing almost exactly the same action with completely different mise en scene, this shows the details of our movie and how much we've learned from our preliminary tasks. The music in our final movie also improved greatly from our card game preliminary task, we were able to create a much more complex piece of soundtrack that includes, diagetic sound and non diagetic. Most of the sound in our final movie is non diagetic to set the mood of the movie, it is repetative similar to our Card Game task, but we also added the non diagetic sound in the dream scene, where you can hear the sound of leaves rustling, and the environment, this adds to the tension of the movie.