Evaluation: Question 7

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

To ensure we would be successful in our final project we had to do a preliminary task to ensure we would know all the basic rules of creating a media production. During the preliminary task we learnt many different camera shots and camera movements, learning what match on action was and how to apply it. Learning about continuity and shot reverse shot - the 180 degrees rule - and then applying it to our preliminary test, this was something we found quite easy and it worked quite successfully in our preliminary task.

We also learnt crucial knowledge on editing. For our preliminary task we edited on iMovie and in our final project we progressed to the more professional Premiere Pro. However the skill we learnt on iMove we could transfer across , like use of transitions, titles, sound and continuity.

Camera shots : We learnt many different shots and angles were used in the film industry and the preliminary task helped show us how to use them efficiently, where to use them and which would work best for the horror genre. We were taught how to convey feelings and emotions with camera shots and angles - for example close-ups show tension and allow the audience to see what the character is feeling, low angles give power and status to the character, compared to a high angle that gives a sense of vulnerability and weakness to a character - stripping them of all previous power they had.

We found one of the most successful shots we filmed was the close up of the bloodied newspapers, we think this because it tells a previous story and foreshadows the future plot in just one shot, creating tension.

Also with the cameras we evolved from the cameras on iPads to a Canon Legria HD camera and tripod, progressing from shaky poor quality footage to semi-professional footage.

Planning:

While doing the preliminary task we also learnt how to plan everything properly and how to show sufficient evidence of our planning, so story boarding, pen portraits, doing screen shots of our work and posting it as evidence - we used all of the planning ideas and evidence posting for our final project, so we would work efficiently and well.

Team Work:

Also from doing the preliminary task we learnt how to work efficiently in a team, sharing our ideas and helping others to evolve there ideas which is what we did to come up with the plot for our final project, I came up with the idea of a demon possession, Agne added the fact it should be a girl who gets possessed and John adding in about we could used subliminal messages to get across that she was possessed we used this and our final project came out good and effective as a teen horror movie. Sticking to our original plot almost flawlessly, we only excluded the eyes turning black, due to an after effects error.

 

We as a group believe what we learnt most from our preliminary task and what we most progressed from is our editing, we say this because compared, there is a clear difference between our preliminary task and final project. Our final project being up to a higher standard, with more effects in it, colour balancing, sound editing, transitions, ect. There is also more clear and precise footage that fits better together, but you can see how the preliminary task has progressed to be our final piece and how what we learnt while doing our preliminary task was applied to our final project.