Evaluation..Question 7

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


Looking back at the skills we were using when we first did our preliminary film i feel that i have learnt more skills and i have enhanced the skills that i had when we first started this project, we had some major issues when we first started the project because we were all coming out with different ideas, but they had nothing to do with the main plot behind the film, which is why we then spent days meeting up to sort everything out until we were all crystal alear with what we were doing and when we were planning to do it by.

When we first started this project i feel that my skills concerning Mise En Scene, Camera, Sound and Editing were minimal but i feel as the weeks went on i really started to enhance the skills that i already had along with the ones that i learnt along the way, i had no previous experience editing before so i was a little bit hesitant but i feel that it all came out well in the end, i now feel much more confident editing with programs such as final cut and when we use it again i will be able to use it in full confidence as i know what i am doing.

The 180 degree rule was the reason for us making many mistakes when we first started this coursework unit because for me it was really confusing as we didn't really understand what we was meant to be doing, i think that all of our editing shots such as match cuts worked really well in the opening of our thriller opening. The sound also caused us some concerns as we didn't know if the sound we wanted to use in our thriller was copy righted, so that slowed us down a little bit.

The titles were a lot harder to do than i thought they would be, we used live type to edit the credits and we had no idea how long it would take to figure out how it was meant to be done. When we finally realized what we were meant to be doing we had a lot of fun playing around with all the different effects that we could add to the credits. We encountered another problem while doing this and that was when we exported our credits back to final cut the credits were not as long as we wanted them to be, which meant that it was harder for our audience to read and understand what was coming up on screen. 

I think for the final film our skills were much better than those that we demonstrated at the beginning of this coursework unit, i am now much more confident using all the equipment and using the skills such as the 180 degree rule. In our preliminary task that we completed at the beginning of the unit was very basic and that was because we were using very basic skills like simple cuts and very simple edits, this was because it was only our first week of this coursework unit and know one really knew what we were doing.

To sum up i am now really exited to start the next coursework task next year where we will be creating our own music video, so i feel really confident that i will be able to use most of the skills that i have learnt on this unit in our music video. I hope that when it comes round to our music video we will spend more time editing because that is where we had the most trouble.