Evaluations: Question 7

Looking back at my preliminary task what did I learn in progression from it?

Before the preliminary task I had no real previous experience with filming or editing, so the preliminary task was the first time that I had a chance to do this, so in short I learnt how to film and edit from the preliminary task.

The narrative for our preliminary task was thought out in 1 hour meaning we didn’t know what the actors would say and we didn’t have time to think through where we would film. Whereas, the main task, we had a while to think of the narrative we even had time to update the narrative, we also had months of time to research the genre and compare our ideas meaning we can have the best chance possible. In the preliminary task I didn’t think to film from multiple angles and multiple times meaning the actual scene looked really scruffy. Whereas the main product is totally smooth as we filmed each shot from 3 different angles, we also waited 3 second before and after we were ready to get as much clip to edit as possi
ble.

Lighting in preliminary task

Lighting in main

In my area of the product I think that I filmed well, the camera work in my opinion was not bad at all, I think this comes down to the fact that we did quite a bit of practice on filming and we filmed quite a few times each shot, this is because in the preliminary task I didn’t shoot from multiple angles meaning we had a tough time when it came to continuity. When it comes to quality of lighting, my part was filmed in the morning in the morning so we got alt of natural lighting, we wanted natural lighting as it shows that the character is outdated, old and retired, I thought long about the lighting as the lighting in the preliminary task was poor and had artificial lighting which made the colour of the whole thing was yellow.

The quality of sound, I would say is our strongest point, in our product we have a long news broadcast that we actual got Dominic McGuiness from talk sport to voice act for, this was done in a professional studio meaning the quality of sound is pristine. I think that I edited the sound very well when it came down to it, the quality of sound in the preliminary task was a very bad point for us, during the filming we had chairs screeching, the dialogue was quiet and we had no music in the task what so ever. I managed to include a sound bridge which is great for continuity. Also the music in my part is a smooth rhythm classical tune that connotes he’s living a boring, alone life but there’s a chance for happiness.

In conclusion, I am extremely happy with how our final product turned out, I was actually worried that it would be a total disaster but I feel I came through to create the best product with the potential I had, I put 100% effort into the creation of my section, the only problems lie with Alex’s section as he had problems filming on the day, with many poor shoots meaning the time ran down and he had a dark set to film with.