Media evaluation: Acticity 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?

I have learned a lot about many new techniques from what I did in my Preliminary task. Firstly I have learned how to use many different uses of using the camera. In particular, the use of camera angles I have used in this task. In my preliminary task, I only used one angle which was a high angle shot that shows the drug dealers feat as he walks up the steps. However in my main task I used, low angle shots and high angle shots in multiple areas and used them at more extreme angles instead of it having it a soft angle. So I have vastly improved in my filming with camera angles.

Extreme high angle shot

Main film intro (top) Preliminary task (bottom)

 

 

 

 

 

Extreme low angle shot

 

 

Another key feature that I've learned to use as well is the 180 degree rule which I didn't use in my Preliminary task. I really had to look into how I could make this shot work in my main film since I had no experience at using this technique. However when I did use it, it worked very well in my shot. The only time I did use it was at the climax of my intro when Harry is about to get attacked. In this clip a bird flies away and harry looks back over his shoulder to see what it is. The first part of the shot was a low angle shot of him looking into the bush and after he turned around, the shot looks over his shoulder behind him looking around at the scene. This was a very effective shot in my scene also because it had a change of lighting within it and made the 180 degree comparison more effective in the build up of the scene. Here is some pictures of this shot from my main intro.

 

 

My 180 degree rule shot







 



I have also perfected the use of the use of shot and reverse shots. This was mainly used when the characters were exchanging their dialog within the scene. For this I again used my new learning concept of the 180 degree rule. Here I used this technique to almost give a vantage point of the characters when they exchange their dialog so the audience is in the scene and makes it more effective. This technique was also unused in the Preliminary task to the detail I used in my film, so learning about it was also very vital. Eventually I found that the effect worked well and had again adapted the shot well for the dialog of the characters in the scene, and using this important shot in a professional way.

My use of the shot-reverse shot in my intro

Shot reverse shots in my preliminary task


Lastly I improved my editing skills of my final product. In my preliminary task I had a slight use of inexperience in film editing so by learning how to do a little at the start was ideal. However as I completed my main film, as I started to edit I began to learn more about the specific tools I needed to use in my intro to make it effective. Eventually after much trail and error with these tools I finally managed to perfect the overall editing of my intro to make the transitions between shots and sounds more smoother. Overall my intro looks more professional and less silly errors that I have failed to notice on so it looks like it is a professional piece.


To finish, I think my overall progress over this course has really changed my use of skills for filming. I know what shots I can use to make the intro more effective and how I can use the different techniques to mould them into my selected genre within my intro. So these are skills I will remember from when I next do a film intro when asked to and look back from what I did simply from my Preliminary task to my professional and successful intro that I have just completed and I have really learned more about filming than I have ever had before now.

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