Q7 of our media film evaluation

1. Question 7
Looking back at your
preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full
product?

2. the preliminary task – Before
Recording
I did not know how to use a camera properly to get effective and professional
looking footage. Furthermore, I didn’t know much about producing and
creating a film. I didn’t know about how much planning went into it and how
to shot the scenes effectively or use effective music.
However after working on the preliminary task I had a small understanding of
how much planning went into films because we had to plan all of the
different types of shots, what we were going to do and what we were going
to say. We spent quite a lot of time planning the short video for the
preliminary task so I knew that we would have to spend quite a lot of our
time planning the final product (an opening sequence for our own film).
Although we did have a brief which we wouldn’t when making our own film
so the preliminary task was a little bit easier.

3. Planning of the
Preliminary Task

4. the Preliminary Task – After
Recording
After completing the preliminary task I had a better understanding of camera
shots and a brief idea of how to plan for a short film. In the preliminary task
we had to include shot reverse shot, match on action and keep to the 180˚
rule. As we had to complete these in the preliminary task (because it was in
the brief) I was able to get a better idea of how to complete these and how
to use them effectively therefore I was able to use these skills in the actual
final product (the opening sequence of our own film).
Also I was able to understand how to plan short scenes and what we needed
to do and how to actually film the scenes.

5. Camera shots
• Shot reverse shot
• 180˚ Rule
• Match On Action

6. Preliminary Task & final product
From the preliminary task I was able to see and understand how much planning
we had to do for such a short film however we knew that for the final product we
would have to do a lot more planning and we would have to look into extra things
that we didn’t have to look into for the preliminary task such as distribution
companies. Although we were able to get a brief understanding of the sort of
planning that goes into planning the scenes and how/what to record. When it
came to planning for our final product after we had done some basic research and
analysing other films, I had a brief idea on what we needed to plan for out opening
sequence. For example I knew we needed to make up a film which we could
make the opening sequence for and then I took the knowledge which I had gained
from the preliminary tasks and thought about how we could film the scenes such
as the shot types (i.e. shot reverse shot) and how to include them while making
sure they are used effectively.

7. Making use of digital
technologies
For the preliminary we used a basic digital camcorder. By using the camcorder
we were able to understand how we could record the scenes and how to do it
so it looks effective and professionally. We were able to get an understanding
of how the camcorder works and how we could shoot different scenes using it.
As a result when it came to filming our final product we used the same type of
camcorder so we knew how to use it and how to film thing productively.
In addition after recording all of the scenes for the preliminary task, we used
Adobe Premier to edit the scenes together as we had recording them in short
shots. Due to this I was able to get a good understanding of how to use the
software and know what could be done on it so when it came to editing the final
product I had the basic knowledge from the preliminary task of how to use
Adobe Premier.