Question 8

What do you feel you have learned in progression from the preliminary task to the main project?

"The Deal" (Preliminary Task)

"Loanshark" Main Project

Titles

From the two clips you can see that we worked much harder with the titles for "Loanshark" and I think that this because, we done a lot more research on titles that we're specific to the Action Thriller genre and that meant that we decided to seperate the title from the clips, as this doesn't take any attention away from the action of the scenes. The way we have done our titles this time looks more professional overall due to the fonts that we have selected, as they fit in more with the genre of the film while with the preliminary task the fonts was very generic and hindered the film more than helped it.

Transitions

The transitions for Loanshark compared compared to those of The Deal work so much better as they make the video so much more smoother than the deal and it also shows how we have grown as in "The Deal" the transitions are just fades and quick cuts, while in "Loanshark" we are using cross cuts and a lot more technical transitions.
I think that the transitions improved ,because we learned the importance of transitions to the all around feel of the film and we really took that on board.

Locations

You can see how our use of mise-en-scene improved just through our use of locations as with "The Deal" it is so obvious that it is filmed in a school, while for "Loanshark" you can't really tell where it has been filmed. This is emphasized as for the kitchen scene that is really filmed in the Sixth Form Common room and you can't tell that because of our attention to detail for mise en scene with the production of Loanshark". Despite this, if we do a task like thi=s again I would prefer filming outside of school as then we will have so many more options when filming.

Target Audience
I feel that for 'Loanshark' we had a much clearer idea of our target audience, because of the research that e carried out. This helped because we were able to find out that the demographic for an action thriller, which is 14-35 year old males. This really helped us as unlike with "The Deal" we didn't know our target audience was and that meant that we couldn't design the film to what our target audience would be interested.