Evaluation Task 7 - Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learn't In The Progression From It To The Full Product?

I think that my filming and editing skills have progressed from my prelim task to the final product. Our prelim was very basic, using dialogue and not providing the actors with costumes, just wearing their own clothes. We also used very simple shots and filmed the 2 people trying to get one of them to press an alarm. However our overall thriller was a lot more complicated, as we based it around the 1950s, therefore the costumes had to be 1950s clothes and when doing the editing we had to put the opening title sequence into black and white to fit with the 1950s. From start to finish the, whole day was more complex as we were shooting in different location, therefore we needed a detailed storyboard and also a shooting schedule so that we knew what we had to do at what times.

Adding sound to the two pieces has developed from the prelim to our final opening title sequence. Although we didn't use dialogue in our final thriller, like we did in our prelim, it was still more complex due to the fact that we used soundtracks and added other sounds to the title sequence from soundtrack pro, also heightening the sounds that were already in our clip to make it more realistic. We decided not to use any dialogue so that it fit with the film noir theme. We also had to merge two tracks together which was also more complex than the prelim as we only used dialogue, no music or sounds.



Editing was another big thing that has developed between our overall thriller task and our prelim. We were much more creative when editing our final task as we used final cut pro to create the atmosphere of the 1950s, also creating a shot of reflecting what was happening in the window into the lens of the camera. We put more detail in to the media thriller compared to the prelim task as we had more time to do it. When editing the prelim task shots together, you could see where we had cut them and fitted them together because it did not flow as well as our main task. This is because we were more confident with final cut pro as we had done it before therefore we could tell when shots didn't fit together, therefore being able to make it flow smoothly.  We also used more of a variety of shots in the media thriller such as low angle shot, tracking shots and high angle shots compared to our prelim task. We were more confident with final cut pro when editing the final piece therefore we could explore the different things that could be done to our piece making it much more interesting to watch, such as making a white screen so that it looked like there had been a flash and fading into a still image of the picture the photographer had taken. We did more research for our media thriller than our prelim as we had to find the correct costumes and props for the 1950s so that it fitted the time period and would not look odd. Also we were able to create a title for our final product rather than just having our names which would draw the audience in to watch want to watch it. 

When filming our final media product we knew what more of the buttons meant on the camera meaning that we could film the shots better and in a way that we wanted them without having to ask for help.