Evaluation Question 7

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?



Preliminary Task


Main Task


The preliminary task helped me and Lucy prepare for the main task because we had to parctice camera shots that we my need in the main task and also get familiar with the technology we had to use for example, the editing software and the camera. The three main things we had to focus on was the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot. Throughout the filming of the preliminary task we also noticed things that weren't very succesful so we could then make sure we don't make those mistakes again in the main final task. We noticed that sometimes we hadnt filmed enough takes of each shot to avoid a mistake in one take so then we had to work around that. Also some of the shots weren't very smooth which made it look unprofessional.

180 degree rule:

The 180 degree rule is there to make filming look profressional. When filming you should imagine a line that is drawn perpendicular to the camera's viewpoint in the establishing shot of the scene. The camera/s should all remain on the same side of this line. Which is the 180 degree angle that you can place the camera if you go over the other side of the 180 degree angle you are breaking the rule and it won't look professional.

 An example of the 180 degree rule:

Match on Action:
Match on action is an editing technique which is used to make sure continutity editing is achieved. One shot cuts to another shot which portarys the action of the subject in the first shot.

An example of match on action:

 

 

Shot/Reverse Shot:

Shot reverse shot is an editing technique where the first shot is where one character is shown looking at another character and then the next shot is of the other character is looking back at the first character.

 

An example of Shot/Reverse Shot:

 

In our main task we had no shot reverse shot because there were no conversations between two people.

 



 

These are some screen grabs from the preliminary task and the main final task to show comparison and how we have progressed:

Comparison of match on action:

Preliminary Task

Final Task

 

Comparison of over the shoulder shot:

Preliminary Task

 

Main Task

 

 

 

The progression from the preliminary task to the main task has made me realise how the skills i learnt from the preliminary task enabled me to create a higher quality final task.

I think that in the final task the whole thing is alot better than the preliminary task because we have included sound, transisitons and effects but in the preliminary task it was very basic and didn't look very high quality. We learnt from the preliminary task to make sure we dilm each scene more than once to avoid any mistakes which is what we did which allowed us to then create a film without having to cut bits out to avoid mistakes.

 

A difference that the main task had from the preliminary task is, we had to create a film company logo as this made it look like a real film and we also had to add titles to the opening sequence to so those are two more skills i have learnt to be able to create a final piece that was better than the preliminary task.

 

 Production Company and Titles for Final Task: