The student learned many new skills when progressing from their preliminary task to the full product. They improved at editing techniques in Final Cut, incorporating things like color correction and edge blur. Their camerawork advanced as they focused on shot types, angles, and following rules. Sound design expanded to include diegetic and non-diegetic elements. Matching shots became more precise. Titles were added. Overall, their skills grew tremendously in areas like editing, camerawork, and storytelling.

1. Evaluation 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.  After completeing the Preliminary task back in
September my skills and understanding of various editing
and camerawork techniques have improved
dramatically, a lot more than what they did at GCSE.
 In the progression I have learnt that technology is
unreliable and how complex camera work can actually
be and it requires a lot of thinking instead of just going
out a placing a camera anywhere.

3. Editing
 Even though for the preliminary task we editted using iMovie
HD, Final Cut has similar elements in which I developed
significanty.
 I did not know that a colour corrector existed to make the
colours stand out more and seem a lot more cinematic. This
filter was not used in the prelim task, but used in every shot
of our main task which improved the quality of our
product.We also added a edge blur to some of our shots to
make them stand out from the rest, highlighting sime key
points of our opening sequence.
 This progression allowed the group to create an effective
final piece that looks professional.

4. Match on Action
 Our progression also allowd us to make match on
action shots more realistic and precise.
 In our prelim task, the match on action was not cut
precisely enough that in the second shot the hand
was not in the correct place. In our main task the cut
was made more precisely and the shots matched
perfectly, even though the angle completely
changed.

5. Titles
 Our prelim task had no titles so using them in the main
task was a new experience. And a huge preogression to
make.
 The use of titles makes the overall look of a short film or
opening sequence more fluent and simple titles are really
efective.
 We used simple titles in our opening sequence made on
LiveType. These were overlapped with our main image
and strategically placed so that they did not distract the
audience too much.

6. Sound
 The prelim task only featured diegetic sound from the actors
voices and the ambience within the shots.
 In our main task, we incorporated diegetic and non diegetic
sound. This made our editting more detailed and showed
the variety of skills we possesed. The non diegetic sound
consisted of a sountrack added over the top, and added
sound effects. Our diegetic sound involved heavy breathing
from our main character, footsteps, music from the main
characters ipod and also the ambience in the shots such as
wind and car sounds aswell as a crow which added great
effect to our film.
 These sounds were carefully chosen to feature in our main
task.

7. Editting Techniques
 There are various editting techniques that were developed over the transition of prelim task to main task.
Therefore our final task is more complex in editting terms and I feel very confident with using editting
programmes
 The techniques developed include:
 Using the marker tool to mark roughly where the clip needs to be cut in order to arrange the clips
 Using the slice tool whilst zoomed into the timeline to cut the clips very precisely
 Using various filters such as colour correctors, black and white, blur and then changing the opacity and
saturation of these filters
 Overlapping photoshop files and livetype files to create a effective and well developed ident
 Using soundtrack to compile sound and adding the file to final cut in the right place
 Altering the pitch levels of sound in the clips to maintain the average sound decibels throughout the
opening sequence.

8. Camera work
 On the day of filming, my camera work skills developed from the prelim task as I
was very hands on with he filming, unlike in the prelim task when I was away for
filming.
 I developed my skills on:
 Pan/tracking shots (keeping th camera steady throughout the whole pan)
 How to use the natural light to ensure all shots are of good visibility
 Altering the tripod to place the camera on a hill and still keep the shot still
 Keeping angles of shots basic so that the audience see the character at a
suitable angle without being confussed
 Sticking to the 180 degree rule (this was quite challenging to remember whilst
filming when the side of the shot changes, but we made sure we stck to it whilst
editing)

9. Shot Reverse Shot
 We studied shot reverse shots before our prelim task and
then had to apply these skills in the prelim task. We also
managed to encorporate one of these shots into our
main task.
 This progression allowed us to build tension more
significantly by showing the victim by herself, then with
the stalker behind her and finally her again. Although this
took some time to film as sticking to the 180 degree rule
can be quite challenging our final product works well
with the types of shots used.

10. Camera shots
 The main task gave an opportunity to experiment with
the different shot types, especially as the prelim task
restricted us.
 In the main task we experimented with the mise en scene
of our establishing shot, trying not to give toomuch away.
A variety of shots were used in our sequence including
close ups, medium close ups, long shots, 2 shots, extreme
close up, point of view shots and over the shoulder shots.
 The wide use of these shots allowed our pogression from
the prelim task to our main task shine through significantly
and our main task is very well developed.