school media work

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

2. Dancing animals task…
 Since doing my dancing animals task I have learnt a lot about
editing on the software Premiere. From this task I learnt how to
cut footage that I didn’t want using the cutting tool and this
allowed me to get rid of things like blank screens or blank spaces
that weren’t needed. I learnt how to add in transitioning effects
and I used these from when we went from one scene to another,
this added fluidity into our film opening. I also learnt how to
render the video which made sure that the video didn’t have any
buffering when being watched. I also learnt how to post it onto
my you tube channel which then allowed me to copy the video
onto my blog and then evaluate it.

3. Preliminary Task…
 Another thing that I learnt was how important it was to
ensure that you were holding the camera in the correct
angle to film and also to make sure that the camera wasn't
shaking when filming, this was important because it meant
that the footage was of good quality. This was very
important when filming our actual film as we was around a
swimming pool which meant that we had to be extra
careful of the camera equipment because we didn’t want
to damage any of course.

4. What I've learned...
 Another thing that I have learned is how important it is to make
sure that you have a well planned out storyboard, this is
because when creating our prelim task I felt that our storyboard
was not as well thought out as it could have been and this then
meant that we didn't really use it when filming because it was
not very helpful to us. So then when we created a storyboard
for our film we made sure that we thought it through really
well, we added the timings on for each shot as well and this
really helped us when we were filming as we knew exactly how
long each shot had to last. We also did a voiceover for our
storyboard which helped to explain a bit better to our viewers.

5. Editing…
 Editing was another thing that I felt I improved a lot on in
the time between my prelim and my film opening. This is
because I learned a lot more skills and techniques with
the premiere software. Things such as adding the titles
on, adding in effects for the transitions from scene to
scene and also adding sounds on at the correct time.
These skills allowed me to make my film opening of a
better quality.

6. Shots…
 In our preliminary task, some of the shots that we filmed weren’t
the best, this may have been due to bad choice of location or
just due to not good filming. When filming our actual film, we
made sure that we planned out each shot that we were going to
film. When filming we had to make sure that we had checked the
weather for that day as this had a big affect on us, this was
because we wanted to make sure that we had good lighting for
our film. We managed to get some lovely shots on a sunny day
and this helped us a lot with the quality of our film.