Evaluation question seven

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

In the progression from our preliminary task I feel that I have learnt how continuity works and that due to this we applied in our film to ensure that we didn’t break it and it ran smoothly. The preliminary task helped me to learn how to use Premier Pro to ensure our films were edited properly.

Our main task was to create a new fiction film, which was around two minutes long. I think that due to the preliminary task we had a better understanding of how to successfully produce a film using the 180 degree line. The preliminary task also made us aware how to use match on action whilst editing. Our preliminary exercise allowed us to create a successful 2 minute film that when showed appealed to the target audience and had effective. I think as group we got better at noticing when continuity was broken, which enabled us to fix our errors and it also allowed us to edit things like a shot-reverse-shot more successfully.

The preliminary task contained simple and basic angles and shots, so when it came to our main task as a group we had the confidence to experiment with other more difficult angles that would improve our film, for example we used a canted angle. The preliminary exercise also helped us understand want certain angles were used for e.g. a high angle shows dominance.

I feel that overall there was big progression from the preliminary task to the full product, as we were all more confident and had come to grasp with the equipment in a way that allowed us to create a better product that would appeal to our target audience.