Evaluation Question 7:Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Preliminary evaluation: In the beginning of the course we started of by doing a

prelim video of a script given to us.

We realised that we weren’t exactly experts but we roughly knew what to do. As a team we decided to start of by planning what type of shots we were going to use and where and what role each of us where going to take.

Focused areas:

Camera skills

Mise en scene

Lighting

Sound=

Editing

Titles

Looking back at the skills: Mise en scene:

As we decided as a group who was going to take what lead we all made the effort to bring in any props or costumes that we may have needed for the day such as a blazer, a tie and glasses.

Lighting:Fortunately, on that day of filming we were lucky enough to have a classroom all to ourselves which meant we could adjust the lightning either bright or dark.

Sound:For our prelim we did not need no background sound other than just us talking.

Titles:In our prelim the only title we had where at the beginning of the clip which indicated who was in the group by showing our names and the title of the prelim.

Editing: For the ‘Holby City’ we only used simple shots such as over the shoulder, long shot and close ups.

As you can see here are all the names of the members of the team, however this does not specify who was in charge of what.

Prelim continued: Through our media we faced difficulties such as not being able to edit with

continuity and the mise en scene being well planned. For example in one scene we had to re-take the background was different from the original shot this made it look unprofessional. As the shots were not showing continuity certain areas looked weird and not in sync.

In this scene as we didn’t know 100% how editing worked we thought we could just shoot the scene as a whole, but we came to find that we were wrong. This is the scene were continuity did not occur which meant that when he closed the door it looked odd as we tried to use 2 different shots from when he entered the room.

As mentioned before of the mise en scene not being well organised, as you can see at the back we have a bottle of a drink, his jacket and the iMac computer which was not there when he first sat down on his chair.

A close up shot requires a lot of skills as one has to emphasis on something in specific however, when this shot was done the camera was slightly wobbling which made the image at times blurry, which was unprofessional.

Bleeding In Love As we reached the end of our film ‘Bleeding In Love’, my group and I had a better understanding of

how to edit to a more advanced program. Final cut pro enabled us to edit to a higher degree, which then made our film more interesting.

Compared to our first prelim we now knew programs that could help us to make our opening scene even better.

When it came to equipment we were also more confident to try different things such as using a tripod at different heights and angles.

We used a microphone for our voice over which was spoken by one of the characters. The reason we used a voiceover is because we found that it was more effective on the audience as they could get an insight on what the character was thinking and feeling.

In one of the scenes we hand held a light so that we could manipulate the lightning by making it dimmer and brighter at certain scenes.

As we were more experienced we used a variety of shots such as using pan for this scene.

Filters were very convenient for us as it allowed us to change the colour of the scene for when the character had illusions.

Final Cut Pro: The program Final Cut Pro played

a very vital role in our final piece as this allowed us to add on credits, use filters, change the speed in which things occurred and much more.

Final Cut Pro allowed us to change the speed at

which these 2 characters walked. This was crucial as it made

our film more appealing to our target audience.

Credit of the crew and stars were added rather than just showing them at the beginning of the video like in our prelim the were equally spread out.

Sound played a vital role for our opening scene as it was a factor which set the scene for the audience when watching the clip.

Conclusion: Overall, I have learnt to do many new things compared to before.

For example, I now now how to use Final cut pro with no struggle, I have learnt to use different angles and movements whilst filming.

I have learnt the following:- different camera shots/angles- how to use final cut pro- how to add credits, sound, filters, change the speed for scenes- how to record voice lovers without any unnecessary sounds in the background- how to work as a team and share out tasks so it can all get done in time- time management and organisation