Preliminary Task :)

In order to understand the true nature of technical creativity, these were some of the questions that were raised:

Why would you use that camera angle?
What effect does that close up have on the scene?
What message does that style of editing convey to the audience?

Technical creativity means being aware of what you are doing, and asking the question 'Why is that happening?' instead of 'What's going to happen?' To use it effectively, you need to understand why you are using every single shot or cut. An example is using a pan instead of a jump cut to suggest an unravelling story, or an aerial shot to convey a sense of omniscience within a scene.

The task we were given was to create a scene around the word suspicion, and to make it as short as possible- so we could truly focus on why we were doing things, and how it made the audience feel- rather than what it looked like to them.

Subsequent to hearing this, we chose the basic narrative of a girl being followed. When we were trying to in-camera edit to save time, discovery was used to a great extent to explain to the audience that the girl was walking into trouble, and getting herself involved in an unwanted situation. Close ups were also used to show the audience the girl's emotions and fears that someone was following her. Long shots were also used to distance her from the audience, and make her seem alone. When it came to editing on iMovie, we distorted the images and unsaturated to the colour to create a colour pallet that wouldn't out of place in a horror movie to create a sense of fear with the effects, tense music was used for the same reason.