Evaluation Question 7What have you learnt from your preliminary task?

Research and PlanningWhen me and my group created our preliminary task, we had little to no knowledge on how to make films. We figured out ourselves how to create the continuity from Charlotte walking through the door by having her do it twice and film it from outside then inside the door. From then, I have researched many films to work out how t create a more fluid transition when doing continuity shots and I feel that my knowledge now on film making has expanded because of this simple clip in the preliminary activity.

I have also been more harsh on myself, for example if my research is not in depth enough in a certain field then I will add more until I am satisfied with it. Also, when I wasn’t happy with a shot when creating my final product, I would reposition the camera and do it again.

ConstructionHere is just some comparisons of a few shots of my final product and all of the shots from my preliminary, highlighting how more professional my final product looks. I am happy with how both turned out however compared to the preliminary, my final product looks a lot more advanced. The shots from my preliminary all show the characters having high eye-lines and place them in the centre however within my final product you can clearly see who is the protagonist and the enemy.

Lighting, Locations and SoundIn my preliminary, I didn’t have to alter the lighting as it was all natural within the college setting however the outside lighting constantly differed within my final product therefore I had to alter the brightness and contrast on Final Cut Express. This links to the location of each filming. Because my prelim was filmed indoors, the lighting stayed the same and also I could control how I filmed it however outside, the lighting would constantly change and there were people walking through the shot so I had to stop filming when there were people.

Finally, I included upbeat, jazz music in my preliminary to reflect the happy mood of the characters however my final product was a completely different genre to my preliminary therefore I used much more bleak and suspenseful music.