Making my thriller come to life.

Throughout out my interesting experience of making my thriller I learnt a lot more about the production practice that goes into making this kind of genre; the lighting, location, casting, costumes. I was eager to find out what was it that made a good exiting tension building film or in our case a thriller. I have benefited from making this in the way that I know now how much effort goes into production like this. My aim by the end of the was to broaden my understanding of the production practices and the technical areas, so I will be able to generate a generically authentic piece of film and to show the progression of the preliminary task as we shot this piece earlier in our year of starting the course, I feel as if I have defiantly expanded my knowledge on all of the technical areas, through out the day as I use the camera once or twice, this was fine for me seeing as I was the member of the group that concentrates on the continuality of each shot, but during the day I was abele to pick up and develop my understanding of the technical aspects of operation of the camera but also all of the considerations over the exposure, white balance and gain. I now have the capability of how I can set up a tripod as well. (For instance you must make sure the spirit bubble was in the smaller circle, I was also able to make independent decisions about the framing and the composition. Further accompanying thaws other responsibilities I was also able to check the continuity with regards to the lighting and the 180 degree rule, as well as monitoring the sound levels on the camera screen, although throughout our shooting day we did have background noise but it was inappropriate as it was ambient noise, so we caught the actual sound of the meat being cut up. I think I had a certain amount of difficulty with this area because I really enjoyed the creative side of the composition side, as well as the framing and the different angles, also the practical operation of the camera movement even though most of our shots were without zooms or tilts, for instance the planning as well as tilting and panning, which unfortunately caused me to ignore some of the necessary technical considerations of sound levels for example, where it is necessary to ensure that the levels for each camera(the camera mic on channel one and the directional mic on channel two) don’t peak in order to maintain good sound quality. The sound that is being generated is being maintained fairly consistent volume, unless the sound is being used as an effect, and without the distortion. In terms of producing a generically authentic sequence, I know that this area of production was the group’s responsibility instead of one particular member of my group,