Looking back at your
preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Though this whole project I have learnt so much about all the different
types of camera shots, camera movements, sounds, filming and editing and I
think by doing the preliminary task helped me so much in the final task of the
film opening as it made me more aware for everything.
The thing it made me most aware about is shot types and how many
different ones there is to use like long/mid/close up shots, as well as match
on action and shot reverse shots. As we
used a shot reverse shot in our preliminary task-
Which
we also then used in our final task-
we also used many different angle in our final task than we used in our
preliminary task as we realized it looks much more interesting from different
angels so in our final task we used high angles and low angles compared to our
straight on angle we used though out our other task.
It also made us more aware not to miss out shots and to take extra
shots that you might not even use as on our preliminary task we missed out one
of our main shots and we didn’t have time to go back and re film it so we had
to cover it up by cutting from shot to shot and even though it didn’t look that
bad in the end it was still not how we wanted it to look so in our final task
we took each shot at least twice and took extra one that we ended up using in
the end.
Also
when we were filming our preliminary task we didn’t have a tripod so we
borrowed one from school yet it was very flimsy and hard use, so we made sure
for our final task we had all the equipment we needed and got it all ready
before hand rather than on the day.
Also in when we were doing our preliminary task we didn’t really know
that much about all the editing as we had never used final cut before but
thought the project we learnt how to use it much more which meant our final
task we edited much better by using different transition and then in out final
task we had to have text and a title where as we didn’t need one in our
preliminary task.
Also with this task we all sat down
together and edited as this was easier to make decisions and picking clips
where as before we all edited at different times which made it hard to decide
which clips to use which over all I found took longer.
Also though out the process I have found
that it takes a lot of planning and that you cant just turn up and expect it to
happen, I found this out by doing the preliminary task as we knew what we
wanted to happen but we hadn’t written down all the shots and who we need for
each shot and the props, so we found that people were just waiting around and
we weren’t all on the same page when it came to what the shots were going to
look like, where as when we did our final task we wrote down a schedule so we
planned what was going to happen in each shot, what people were needed,
costumes and props. This meant no one was waiting around and the whole process
was a lot quicker as we knew what was happening.
So over all I found out there was much
more to the project than I originally though and the biggest thing I found out
thought the process from the preliminary to the final task is that it takes a
lot of planning. Whatever your dong has to be planned before hand otherwise
nothing gets achieved in the end.
