evaluation question 7

1. EVALUATION ACTIVITY 7:
LOOKING BACK AT YOUR
PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU
FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE
PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL
PRODUCT?
BY ALEX WARNER

2. WHAT WE DID FOR OUR
PRELIMINARY TASK:
During the beginning of the year, we made a preliminary task in
which we had to make a short film of someone walking though a
door, sitting down and then having a conversation. We did this task
to practice and to learn how to use different shots such as the 180
degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot. We used a
camcorder and a tripod to film our preliminary task.
Link to preliminary task.

3. DIFFERENT SHOTS WITHIN THE
PRELIMINARY TASK:
Match on action: We got our character within our preliminary task to
walk towards the door, pull the handle down, open the door and then
walk though. We used 5 different shots to show this to make the action
look more natural and smooth.
For the editing we had each clip
timed right so that each part of
the action during the film
matched and added up to make
the action look natural.
(shots of match on action in our
preliminary task)

4. DIFFERENT SHOTS WITHIN THE
PRELIMINARY TASK:
180 degree rule: We got our two characters to sit on
a table either side of each other to keep the action on
one side of the camera thought the scene, this allows
the audience to not get confused as if the rule is
broken it looks like there on the same side of the table
(shots during our preliminary task)
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During the making of our preliminary
task we made the scene with the two
charters talking wrong as they are both
on the same side of the shot during the
action, this breaks the 180 rule
therefore making the action confusing
to the audience.
WRONG RIGHT

5. DIFFERENT SHOTS WITHIN THE
PRELIMINARY TASK:
Shot reverse shot: Shot reverse shot is a film technique
where one character is shown looking at another
character, and then the other character is shown looking
back at the first character. We did this by our two
characters talking to each other while at the table.
(shots of shot reverse shot in our preliminary task)
We did our shot reverse shot to show the two characters talking to each other however
due to the 180 degree rule and how we broke it, the shot reverse shot doesn’t work
however you can still understand the dialogue of the video and what's happening even
though the 180 degree rule is broken

6. EDITING THE PRELIMINARY TASK:
I-movie: we used i-movie on the
school apple macs to edit our
preliminary task, we learnt a lot of
different techniques on this software
which taught us and got us prepared
for our thriller opening
Once we uploaded the
footage it was easy to
see on I-movie what
shots we wanted to use
and what shots we
didn’t, this allowed us to
pick the right shots.
We edited the
preliminary task by
cutting down the clips
and making sure all the
action matched within
the task. Cutting clips
allowed us to trim down
the shots so that there
not to long nor to short

7. WHAT WE LEARNT FROM THE
PRELIMINARY TASK THAT WE USED IN
OUR FINAL OPENING:
Preliminary task Final opening
Match on action Match on action
From what we learnt in the preliminary task, we wanted to
show match on action as it allows the action within the
opening to move much more naturally
Shots of our
character
walking though
a door and
opening it
Shots of Scarlet
and her friend
hugging and the
pulling away and
talking
180 degree rule 180 degree rule
Shots of our
characters
talking to each
other
Shots of Scarlet
in her bed,
establishing shot
of her bed and
tracking shots of
her in bed
From what we learnt in the preliminary task we wanted to use the
180 degree rule and do it right, so we experimented with different
shots but decided to use our first shot of scarlet to be shot by
using the 180 degree rule

8. WHAT WE LEARNT FROM THE
PRELIMINARY TASK THAT WE USED IN
OUR FINAL OPENING:
Preliminary task Final opening
We edited
our
preliminary
task in I-
movie
We edited
our final cut
and rough cut
in I-movie
From what we learnt in our preliminary task we
also used the same techniques for our final cut.
We cut clips very finely so that when all the clips
where put together the action on screen would be
very fast paced and shows stress and confusion
within our opening
We experimented with different sound types by layering
sound on top of each other to add the effect of a busy
party within the party scene
During the tracking shots, we sped them up
on I-movie to make the action move faster
and flow nicer
At the beginning and end of our final cut we
used transitions to open and close our
opening
We used many different
types of techniques on
I-movie:

9. EVALUATION OF WHAT WE LEARNT
FROM THE PRELIMINARY TASK:
Compared to our preliminary task and our final cut of our
opening, you can clearly see the difference in quality
between the two and you can see how we have progressed
and learnt between the time of us making them both.
(link to prelim task)
(link to final cut)