D. Other Students Work

Research into another students work

I started off by looking at a students work called Rory Ford. I watched his video a couple of times to see the weaknesses and strengths from his video that I could take and also prevent from happening in my thriller. One strength which I picked up on was the ambient sound that is present throughout the thriller. The ambient sound does a very good job of creating suspense and really giving and conveying that thriller feel to the whole piece. A weakness which I picked on almost immediately is the white balance on the camera, which you can see from the picture displayed below. The whole thriller was shot without the camera being white balanced properly. The shots look very washed out and yellow. This is something I will take from this video and make sure not to occur in my thriller. 

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I then did research into another students work called Aaron Hilton. I watched it a couple times and took notes on the strengths and weaknesses of the his thriller. A strength which I picked out were the special affects that he had put over some shots. From the picture displayed below you can see that he edited onto the screen a blood effect to give off suspense or create it. I think this works well for creating such feelings and will be something I will also try to carry out in my thriller film.

A weakness which I recognized again was the white balance that had not been done again in the video. As you can see from the picture below the white balance has clearly not been done and really gives off a yellow light and does not really play or add to the whole feel/convention of a thriller at all. This is a weakness that I will make sure does not occur in my thriller film.

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I then looked into another students work and watched their video. I looked into a students video called Alex Noble. I watched their video a couple times and picked up a strength which was the audio. The dialogue audio was very clear and had good sound quality to it. This audio had clearly been recorded separately and then matched the mouth movements with the audio when they came to edit the video. This is a strength that I would like to take over to my thriller and use.

A weakness that I picked up was the camera quality and how the whole video seemed very grey and low quality. The colours were washed out and didn't really give any clear quality shots of anything as you can see from the screenshot below. This could be down to the ISO being set too low as well as improper focus. When it comes to filming my video I will make sure the camera has been set to correct settings as well as having it focused properly for all shots. Also making sure colour corrections are done correctly in the editing stage.