Monday 9 May 2011

Group Evaluation: Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to your final product?

I believe we have learnt to plan our shoots effectively, to make sure we get all the footage we need from each shoot. For our preliminary task, we did very little planning which consisted of a brief discussion in class and talking about our shots just before we were going to film them. For our final product, however, we completed storyboards and shot an animatic so that we knew exactly what we were shooting on our shoots. We also conducted call sheets and risk assessments for each shoot which we did not for our preliminary task.



We have also enhanced our editing skills using Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0; in our final product we used many effects on our footage such as a black and white colour wash, fade to white and adjusted the RBG colour settings on some shots. In our preliminary task, we didn't use any effects and simply cut our footage and added music.

Our preliminary task was continuity edited, as was our final product, but I believe that we demonstrated a better use of continuity editing in our final product as it effectively creates the illusion of continuos action.






In our final product we used a variety of different frammed shots to help keep interest in the film however with our preliminary our shot distances were pretty much the same. Also in our final we had more time to think of suitable locations and costume and what iconography we would need to show in order to convey the genre of the film.


Overall it is apparent that we have improved significantly from our preliminary to our end product, our editing is alot smoother we frame shots better, mise-en-scene is more aparent and sound is more suitable.

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