3 - How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Code and Conventions

At the start of the course, I barely know anything about code and conventions but as I have watched many thriller movies and simultaneously have my teacher beside me to outline me the conventions of thriller. Therefore I am now able to use the knowledge to adapt it in my film opening.

For instance when deciding to make a Gangster/Crime Thriller we look at such texts as Goodfellas, Casino and Tom Hardy's 2016 film Legend - a biopic about the Kray Twin. From this we saw the conventional mise-en-scene particularly costume and also the way the camera treating the criminals. The suits were sharp and often they were shots from a low angle to create the sense of power.

Planning & Organisation

When we filming we did not plan much but we were more excited to film our first scene, no doubt nothing went as we wanted it to be. However, after that scene we became more organized and have started to plan every aspect of our filming. For example, equipment, location, date and time e.g.

Camera Work

At the beginning I had very few knowledge on camera but as I started to learn the functions of camera and different ways to film to give the audience different emotions I am now more confident with camera

Visual effects

I always have an interest on visual effect but hardly know anything about it. Until I started this course I put in more time in researching on visual effects by asking for help from the older year group or watching tutorial video on youtube.

Editing

I found editing very hard at first but I guess I was lucky because my best friend spends most of his time editing videos. Therefore, when I was stuck he would help me and show me how to do it and moreover watching him edit really helps me gain more knowledge.

Creative Confidence

I have researched the codes and conventions found in a thriller and found that thrillers like Inception uses red saturated lighting. This is because red connotes an idea of destruction and is used to represent evil and death. In addition, red can also symbolise blood, death and anger.