Evaluation- Question 7

Question:


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


Planning & Storyboard


In terms, of planning, my skills have greatly improved from my preliminary to my final film opening. The planning for the preliminary task was very rushed as compared to the final film opening. For example, we did not follow most of the shots we planned to use from the storyboard in the preliminary task as we found that they did not work well. Better planning would have solved this problem. The final film opening planning went much more smoothly. We followed all of the shots we planned on the storyboard.




Camera


Using the camera in the preliminary proved difficult, it took time to adjust the camera in the right position to capture usable shots. At times we couldn't use a tripod to steady the camera because of the small size of the room that we were working in. The camera was used much more effectively in the final film opening. We were able to use a tripod properly and steady the camera. We were also able to put the camera in and out of focus when we wanted to add effect to the scene. A skill we did not process when making the preliminary. We also learned how to watch playback of the recently film scenes to see what we could possibly do better. 




Mis en Scene


The controlling of Mis en scene was non-existant in the making of the preliminary. We never arranged the props correctly simply due to inexperience and allot of things looked out of place in the scene. We also forgot about costume and just woe whatever we were wearing at the time. On the other hand, in the final film opening we put allot of thought into the Mis en scene. We planned the costume before hand and it was to the benefit of our scene. The props were also properly arranged this time. We had lit candles, a newspaper article, a noose, writing pad and pen. They all looked great and added to the effectiveness of the scene by making it seem more realistic and believable.




Lighting


Lighting proved difficult in both the preliminary and the final film opening. In the preliminary there was no light available apart from the light in the actual room we used to film in. Therefore we had no control over the lighting of the scene which negatively effected it. The lighting in the final film was much better but still was hard to use. We had a dimmer light available to us which we used to the best of our abilities, it allowed us to get rid of some shadows in the background  by altering the height, range and brightness of the light. Some things still weren't right though and for some scenes we put a bag over the light to shoot the scene. We know it was not ideal but necessary.




Sound


There was no soundtrack in the preliminary scene because we found it difficult too effectively use soundtrack pro. We did add foley sound though because they were easy enough to do with just the camera's microphone. The final film had a fully fledged soundtrack created on Soundtrack pro, by then I had the skills necessary to create a very good soundtrack. We wanted to add foley sounds also but there was no time for that.

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Editing

Editing on both the preliminary and the final film was done on final cut pro. Our skills on Finalcut pro did'n't really improve from the preliminary to the final film because we were already quite good at it, I feel if we had more time to practise on Final cut pro, we would have been more skilled and able to use Finalcut pro to a much higher level.

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