Question 7

1. Question 7
Looking back at your preliminarytask,what do you feel you have
learnt in theprogression from it to thefull product?
During the preliminary task I learned a lot of new things and used technologies that I
had never used before. One of the things we had to learn was how the camera works,
and how to position it. I found this difficult in the preliminary task as I had never used a
camera or tripod before. We also had to learn where to position the camera in order
for it to flow well, this included shot reverse shot, match on action and the 180o rule.
After we filmed the preliminary task we also learnt how to edit the footage. We did this
on the editing software called MovieStudio Platinum. MovieStudio Platinumwas very
complex however was simple to use once I got the hang of it. All of this helped prepare
us for making our own filmopening.
180o rule:

2. Shot ReverseShot:

3. Match on Action:

4. By doing the preliminary task it helped a lot when making our film opening, it ensured
we knew how to use the camera and editing software as we had past experiencewith
using them both and therefore was good practice. It also made sure our filmopening
flowed and looked better and made sure that all of our footage was of high quality
and was less time consuming. During the preliminary task I found the editing the easiest
part. I caught onto it quickly and could make the preliminary task look good and have
continuity, this then helped me a lot in editing my film opening as I knew how to edit to
a good standard and could use my skills fromthe preliminary task in my actual film
opening. However I found using the camera and tripod very difficult, this was because I
had never done it before and the camera was very confusing to use, it had lots of
different buttons and I couldn’t set it up very well. After a bit of practice I got better at
using the camera but had to keep asking for help, however when making our film
opening I ended up having to do the camera set up and filming and by the end of
filming I found the camera easy to use and could do it speedily.
A lot changed from our preliminary task to making the film opening in all 3 stages of
production (Research and planning, Construction and Evaluation):
RESEARCH AND PLANNING-
I think that this was the biggest development fromthe preliminary task to filming our film
opening. During our preliminary task we got told what to do so the concept and idea
of the filming was limited. The idea was spoon fed to us and it was very basic and short

5. and had no creativity to it. However In the filmopening we could be as creative as we
wanted and we could come up with any ideas we wanted, the whole concept of the
film opening was much more complex compared to in the preliminary task. We did
story boards and a script in both the preliminary task and film opening however the
preliminary task story boards and script were simple and only about 1 page long
whereaswhen we planned our filmopening we did several drafts of the story board
and script and they were in a lot of detail and were both over 3 pages long.
PICS OF STORY BOARD
When planning our film opening we did intensiveresearch into our idea to ensure it was
a good idea. The planning took several weeks of research before we were happy with
our final idea. This is completely opposite in the preliminary task as we did no research
and decided the idea on the day and didn’t change it at all. Before wecould film
anything in our preliminary task we had to have a tutorial on how the camera worked
whereaswhen we filmed our filmopening we knew how to use the camera so a tutorial
wasn’t needed.
CONSTRUCTION-
When filming our preliminary task we used simple camera shots ( Close up and long
shot) whereas in the film opening we had a range of different camera shots, this made
the film opening look a lot better and of a higher status .
Preliminary task –
Extreme close up

6. During the preliminary task we only learnt about match on action, shot reverse shot and
the 180o rule. We used these in our film opening but we did more technical camera
movements for example tilts and pans. We also did handheld cameras to connote fear
and worry.
Film opening-
Close up
Preliminary task –
Long Shot
Film opening-
Long Shot
Film opening-
Mid Shot

7. When editing the preliminary task it was very short and simple to do and we could do it
in about an hour. The only thing we added in was some text at the start with our name
on. This then developed a lot in our film opening as it was nearly 2 minutes of editing to
do and took about a month to edit! We also made the editing more complex as we
added filters, transitions and lots of text. We also used Photoshop to add in overlays on
our film opening whereas in the preliminary task we didn’t use Photoshop.
Another thing that developed frommaking the preliminary task to making the film
opening was Mise-en-scene. During the preliminary task the costumes weren’t planned
and people wore whatever they were wearing that day, the lighting was exactly the
same all the way throughout (high key), there was limited actors whoweren’t
comfortable acting, no makeup or props wereused and the setting was simple and
limited to the school corridor and classroom. Whereasduring our filmopening we
looked into the mise-en-scene and planned it carefully and had set costumes, different
lighting depending on the mood, high quality actors, lots of makeup, props such as
knives and guns and different settings. I think that because wedid the mise-en-scene in
Film opening-
Mid Shot
handheld camera
Film opening-
Close up panning
shot
Magic Bullet
quick look
filter
selection
Magic Bullet
quick look
filter- what it
looks like in
my film

8. the film opening in more detail it added to helping make the film opening successful
and look good and realistic compared to the preliminary task that looked tacky and
fake.
Preliminary Task-
Film Opening-
The preliminary task only had about 10 seconds worth of diegetic sound whereas when
we made the film opening we were flexibleand added in sound effects, non-diegetic
sound and lots of diegetic sound.
High Key
Lighting,
normal
school
clothes, no
props, low
quality actor
Low Key &
High key
lighting, high
quality
actors,
props, set
costumes
and makeup

9. EVALUATION-
After we filmed our preliminary task we did no evaluation at all whereas after filming our
film opening we did lots of evaluation. We did this on various technologies such as prezi,
powtoon, Microsoft word and PowerPoint and then uploaded them to blogger using
slide share.
Non Diagetic
Music
Non Diagetic
Sound Effects

10. Overall I think that I benefited fromdoing the preliminary task as it meant we had
practice in using the editing softwareand camera and we could develop our skills we
learnt when making our film opening such as storyboarding, editing, camera shots,
sound, mise-en-scene etc. It also meant we could plan/research, construct and
evaluate our filmopening quickly and effectively and making it as good as it could be.