2.  For our preliminary task we created the
opening 2 minutes of a film, this
allowed us the opportunity to film and
use the equipment and have an
introduction to editing, the software we
would be using and just a general taste
of what our final task would be like.

3. Our team for the preliminary consisted of 4 of
us :Myself (Mark) ,Carl, Ollie and Tom
 We all worked relatively well together and
also had a good time whilst producing the
film.
 For our actual coursework we had Ollie leave
us to join another group leaving myself, Carl
and Tom to team up.

4.  Our team had a lot of strengths, we all liked the same genres of film
and we all had similar ideas when shooting that we all contributed.
 Because there was four of us, work could be distributed evenly and it
was easier to film because we had more people to check that we
were doing everything right.
 By having four people it was also easier because we could have
different people, doing different tasks, at the same time and it
wouldn’t take as long.

5.  Genre ; Action/Thriller
 Story line ; We came up with the
idea of a ‘hitman’ storyline, we
wanted to have a man meet up
with another, they had
previously known each other
and try and discuss a possible
‘hit’ for the ex-hitman. When
the man refuses the other vows
that he will pay...
 We had too much happening in
the first two minutes, this made
us realise once we established
the main storyline we needed to
come up with a condensed
beginning for the film for our
final task.
• Genre ; Horror
• Storyline ; Emily and Josh
are moving into a new house
when they experience some
unexpected visitors from the
past. We see them bringing
in the last few boxes. Emily
continues into their bedroom
when she finds a box that
has sentimental value to her.
She glares at it intensively
and hides it away from Josh’s
reach…
• From doing the preliminary
task we learnt that we
needed to be realistic with
the amount of content within
the storyline of the first two
minutes, by watching other

6.  In our preliminary we had a range of different shots, we did
not keep the camera recording long enough though so we
had to cut from one clip to another quite frequently.
 The Preliminary task allowed us to develop certain skills such
as abiding by the 180 rule when shooting
 When filming we did not carry out certain shots
correctly, due to a lack of planning we did not have a story
board to follow so shots were made up on the spot between
the 4 of us.
 We attempted to carry out a match on action shot of one of
the man opening the door and coming in, because we didnt
film lengthy enough we were left with the sequence being
interupted and the match on action being very poor.
 When shooting although trying to abide by the 180 rule we
did in fact break it causing a lack of flow of the film.

7.  Due to a lack of good team work and organisation we messed
up our shooting and did not include a wide range of shot
types so we ended up having to re-film our entire film.
 Through practise and planning we were able to pull off two
match on action shots both on the boot of the car. Both of
these shots I think proved to be very effective. Josh opens it –
cut to inside car – josh closes it – cut to outside car

8.  The prelim was the first time we had the chance to use Adobe
Premiere Elements. Because we had never used this before I
thought we did quite well for achieving a finished prelim but
feel that if we knew the software well like we do now, we
could have done a much better job.
 Our biggest problem with out preliminary is the fact that we
didnt do long enough shots, because of this we had to cut
the shots early rushing the sequence of the film.
 We also found that we did not cut at the right times, due to
lack of organisation we filmed and did not think about how
the film would cut together, because of this our cuts were
very jumpy are was not a very smooth transition.

9.  Due to the fact that we were now experienced with Adobe
Premiere Elements, we were in a much better position on our
editing and we knew much better how the software worked
and the different things that we could do with it.
 Because we took longer shots, this gave us a wider
opportunity when editing our film as we were able to cut
when we wanted. We also shot the same shots more than
once so we would have a wider range of shots to choose the
best.
 We were able to put video effects on our footage so the home
video footage would be more grainy and more evident that it
is not the normal camera.
 Using Photoplus I created a layer in which we were able to put
over our home footage film to make it very clear that it was
the home footage.

10.  Due to the fact that we were now experienced with Adobe
Premiere Elements, we were in a much better position on our
editing and we knew much better how the software worked
and the different things that we could do with it.
 Because we took longer shots, this gave us a wider
opportunity when editing our film as we were able to cut
when we wanted. We also shot the same shots more than
once so we would have a wider range of shots to choose the
best.
 We were able to put video effects on our footage so the home
video footage would be more grainy and more evident that it
is not the normal camera.
 Using Photoplus I created a layer in which we were able to put
over our home footage film to make it very clear that it was
the home footage.
Before
After

11.  Due to the fact that we were now experienced with Adobe
Premiere Elements, we were in a much better position on our
editing and we knew much better how the software worked
and the different things that we could do with it.
 Because we took longer shots, this gave us a wider
opportunity when editing our film as we were able to cut
when we wanted. We also shot the same shots more than
once so we would have a wider range of shots to choose the
best.
 We were able to put video effects on our footage so the home
video footage would be more grainy and more evident that it
is not the normal camera.
 Using Photoplus I created a layer in which we were able to put
over our home footage film to make it very clear that it was
the home footage.
Before
After
I used my prior knowledge of
photo shop and adapted it to
using photo plus.
By adding this mask it makes it
clear to the audience when it is
Emily recording and not.

12.  Due to being rushed to get a final edit done and a
lack of organisation again we did not have any music
in our prelim, because of this we did not get to
experiment of different ways of getting music that
you can use for free or start to make our own music.
 In our final piece we decided to not add music as we
felt their wouldn’t be music with the write tempo to
fit into our shots.
 But we did add sound clips that we acquired offline
from www.soundbible.com that were free to use, we
used a clip that we could present when we saw the
‘possessed girl’ to use as a sting so the audience
would not miss it and it would keep it at the edge of
their seats.

13.  From not doing a good enough script and
storyboard for the Preliminary task we suffered
greatly, this is what encourage us to do the script
and storyboard as early on as we could in our
coursework time.
 Obviously as it would many changes occured to
both the storyboard and the script throughout
the process from start to finish.
 As we are not confident drawers we took pictures
of the shots we wanted to do, and then
eventually we took screen grabs of our film once
shot.

14.  On a whole I think our time management was very poor. As a group
we met up on many occasions but we were not always 100% focused
on our work, all three of us believe that because of this our work has
suffered.
 We did not properly manage our time when filming which caused the
conditions outside to change and thus making us have to re-film.
 Some simple tasks took longer than they should have and not
everyone was putting their sufficient amount of effort and time that
is needed to create a film of high quality.
 On a whole I am proud of what myself, Carl and Tom have achieved
but it would have been a lot less stressful if we had split the roles
equally, all contributed equally and all put much more attention into
our coursework straight from the start.
 From working together it has taught me that I may have chosen the
wrong people to partner up with, as we are friends and can easily
distract me and vice versa.

15.  How to use Adobe Premiere Elements to edit effectively
and create a smooth running film that looks good.
 How to use all the different equipment such as cameras,
mic’s and setting up tripods.
 How to carry shots like match on action successfully and
keeping the pace of the film flowing.
 How to story board and script write effectively to help on
the day of filming.
 How to add sound to your film to effect the audiences
mood.
 How to create a mask on photo plus and layer it over our
film clips to create a camcorder display-like screen.
 How to use a wide range of shot effectivly to keep the pace
of the film the same.