Wednesday, 17 March 2010

looking back at my prelimary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product







How have i developed from my prelim task to my main task
Preliminary Brief: Film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character. A couple of lines of dialogue must then exchanged between characters & match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule should be demonstrated.
Main Task: The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes (all video and audio material must be original, produced by candidates, with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source)

My prelim task we learned and tackled new skills. We were introduced to new key media terms and had to put them into practice. We leaned about all the different shot sizes, camera techniques, and rules and regulations when filming.
From the start of the prelim task i felt that i have progressed and have learned how to familiarise myself with the edit suites, and camera work. The prelim task was very much rushed compared to our main task, we had much more time to prepare and film.
I think our group have learned to motivate ourselves, and with the use of the equipment, we have all become more familiar, with different camera techniques, such as shot reverse shot and match on action. We have all took it turns on the Edit suite's and have all had an attempt at editing meaning we have a good knowledge of editing techniques. For example: during the prelim task, our group was very much behind, so we had to quickly rush it, and get it done, with very much help from our teacher. When i edited in our main task i learned new skills such as turning the sound off or down, learning the skills for sound on the edit suite, and i also learned how to import music over our opening sequence. Even though we were taught this before our prelim task i feel i have developed my knowledge, and have gained more depth of different editing techniques.

Three things which i think i have developed and improved are, our use of camera work, meaning that when filming we took shots more then once so they would be more accurate, and which would prevent us from re filming.
The second element that my group improved from our prelim task was, most of our pre-production work. During the prelim task we did not spend enough time and effort on it, and i think we have improved the quality of our written work, and our planning before our atchual filming, even though it was much more time consuming, our pre-production work was more accurate and presentable then our prelim task.
The third aspect of improvement would be learning and developing our knowledge on the edit suite. When we edited for our prelim task we all did not spend much time on it, and just added in the bits that we needed to. When doing our main task we learned more skills, especially new ones such as different fading techniques, adding in music and appropriate titles.




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