What I feel I have learnt in the progression from I to the full product?

During the preliminary task I used a variety of shots. For example I used over the shoulder shots during the conversation, medium shots, wide shorts and close ups. This allowed us to give the audience a clear view of what’s happening and change the form of shot depending on the situation, for example to show the angry emotions of the character we used extreme close-ups. During the preliminary task I mainly focused on using a variety of clear shots to demonstrate my ability in using different shots and angles. The techniques that we used were much more less complex to what we did in are opening sequence for example the main form of editing we used was straight cuts.

The above shot is a simple wide shot, establishing the setting to the audience, as the setting plays a big role in the narrative (school).


We used match on action, from where the girl goes to the door to her right inside, we did this to make it short and at the same time keep the interest
ofthe audience.
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The above shots is an over the shoulder shot, to show the view from one character indicating it is a conversation. 

The above shot is a close-up shot showing to the audience the emotions of the character.  

The above scene is a tracking shot to follow the characters steps and to also let the audience focus on the movement of the character.


This is my priliminary task;

For my opening sequence I used a combination of special effects, sound and transitions that developed my skills from the prilimary task.

Here are the examples;

This is a wide shot establishing the setting, this also clearly shows the atmosphere of the thriller. We also used special effects to explain its negativity, as we used black and white effects and increased the volume of the birds to cleary demonstrate to the audience that its "scary".

This is a closeup used to identify the psychological character almost making her seem supernatural! We also used black and white effects to continue the negativity of the atmosphere, therefore the use of black and white effect was used through the dream during the oppening sequence.

This is a extreeme wide shot establishing the stting and also the character, we also used it to give the audience a feeling that this psychological/ "different" character is isolated.

During the opening sequence i also developed skills using transitions, the above screenshot shows a wide shot were we used a transition (fade in), we used this so that different shots could all connect rather than seem random. It also makes it look "dreamy", as dreams usually have an unrealistic factor. 

  

For the scene were the character wakes up we used a close-up of her face, we used this so that the audience can identify the characters emotions after she experiences the "weird" dream.



At 1 minute 11 seconds of our opening sequence we adjusted the sound with the clip that the character presses the alarm making the audience think that as she presses the button music is played, this makes it more effective.

During the conversation above between both characters we used over the shoulder shots so that the audience can see the view from both characters as one of them is talking. We used this so that the audience can get a full perspective of what's happening. We also used it so that the audience can see the facial expressions of characters.

In the above shot we used steady-cam so that the camera would focus on the character and their movement, and at the same time also establish the setting. I also darkened the background so that it seems that time has passed by and she on her way back, this also increases the continuity of the scene.

 

In the above scene (character on the bus) we used a transition to link the dream with what is happening showing the audience that what she sees in her dream is repeated making the narrative more clear. Both clips fade in together, as you can see from the above screenshot. 

Click here for more about the sound elements used in the oppening sequence.