"Thriller Practical"

3rd-Dec-08
This is the first lesson as a whole class where we started talking about our coursework; the coursework title is "thriller". In this lesson we had a tutorial on how to edit a short sequences in the editing suite; teaching us how to cut and edit things; giving us a short taste of what we will be doing after filming our real thriller.
We then got split into groups by our teacher Dan Lowe; my fellow group mates are Rifath and Sumah.

5th-dec-08
In Gez's lesson we had a tutorial on how to use the camera and its equipment in a safe and sensible ways. This took around 20mins of the lesson.
We then got given a short task to do; the task was to film a short thriller sequence based on the topic we were given in class. To be able to film this short sequence we had to plan out our narrative, draw a story board and deciding what camera shot we will be using for certain shot. When we completed planning we went out to film the story that my fellow group mates and I plan.

10th-Dec-08
In our third lesson we used the editing suite to edit and cut our practical work. I found it quite difficult as I have never done this before; it was quite hard to figure out where to cut into the right moment. However, as a group we help each other and completed the task.

12th-Dec-08
Fourth lesson; in this lesson we watched a thriller film called "flight plan". W e was asked to watch this because it helps as it gives us some ideas of how our thriller should be. After finished watching the film, as a whole class we talked about each different sequence within the film; 'how the sound effect could create suspense' and the different camera techniques used.