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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? - Joe Sheldon

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

Before production of the beginning of our film, we carried out a preliminary exercise to gain valuable skills in continuity that could be transferred to our project. The brief was a short scene in which a character opens a door, enters a room and then crosses the room to sit opposite a character. They then exchange a few lines of dialogue; the whole scene should last 30 seconds. It should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. The task was designed to help us stick to the basic rules of film making and not confuse the audience by breaking the basic laws of continuity.

We employed shot/reverse shot twice within the first scene to establish the characters and begin conversation between them. We have gotten better at keeping this consistent and using it effectively without hinging the whole scene on this technique. For example, despite there being two over the shoulder shots (pictured above and to the right) to begin the shot/reverse shot sequences within the first scene, one shot of Gemma is shown without the shoulder of Tom, as it still makes sense within the context of the

story but varies the shots more. Practicing this technique in the preliminary task has allowed us to alter the technique for more interesting viewing.

We used the 180 degree rule to good effect within the second scene. Within the preliminary task, we practiced working with an establishing two shot of the characters, and a shot/reverse shot that does not break the 180 degree rule (does not switch sides between the characters). We have improved at varying the shots within this and using it to effectively pull off a walking sequence. In a scene where all three characters are walking up a hill, it begins with a wide shot and then varies in angles and closeness, while not breaking the rule. In contrast, our preliminary task used only a singular wide shot to establish and then the same shot/reverse shot angles. Staying on one side of the line also allowed us to illustrate the direction in which they were walking.

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?

Evaluation question 7 from Jake Lawson

Evaluation Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? -Joe Sheldon

Evaluation Question 6 from joebsmedia

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Pictured above, IMDb (upper) used to research films that were our genre and Blogger (lower), used to document and organise our research.

Slide 2:

Pictured above, Celtx, a script writing software used to create both the rough and final drafts of the scripting for our film.

Slide 3:

Pictured above, Premiere Pro, the editing software used to cut our movie and a Panasonic HC V270, the camera used to get the shots and footage for our movie.

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?

Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation Question 6 – What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the planning of our media product, we used several sources that allowed use to plan and understand Psychological Thrillers. We used  IMD8 that provided numerous ideas for the creation of our film. This is because it gave our group information on similar genres to our film idea, as a result, It improved our general understanding. We also used Rotten Tomatoes as a second source of information as it provided knowledge of audiences regarding to different plots, this then allowed us to create a product that would suite our target audience in best possible way. We presented our work in Blogger which allowed us to clearly organise and display our work in a professional way as well as it making it easy to look back at previous work that could help

contribute to newer posts such as research and sources of information to push up our grades. We also used websites such as Slideshare and Prezi that meant that we could present work in different formats to improve the general presentation of our work. Furthermore, we used different search engines such as yahoo and google to widen our knowledge on certain subjects of media, to improve our understanding on areas that we may not have fully understood or feel we were required to improve on. In addition, we used YouTube to develop our terminology through tutorial videos as well as allowing us to embed videos onto blogger to further explain points through demonstration and examples.

 For pre-production, we used Celtex as a cheap and effective form of writing a script. At first, it was difficult to understand, as there are many functions that we were not familiar with, before using it. However, after using it for some time, we became more experienced with the software, where we were now able to write a script without taking too much time. As well as this, we also had access to numerous templates within Microsoft word that gave us an idea of how to set out different posts such as the risk assessment and the shot list. This made it a quicker and easier process to publish posts which gave us the possibility to focus on content rather than presentation.

In terms of the production of our film, we used a Panasonic HC V270 camera to film all of our clips. We felt that this camera was perfect for what we had to film as the scenes appeared high quality despite the camera not being of a high cost. The only problem that we faced, as a group, is that only having a single camera was a difficult and more time consuming method as we had to perform a scene multiple times for whenever we required to change angles. Therefore, it was harder to keep continuity within our scenes. When it came to editing the clips, at first, it was difficult to understand the functions of Adobe Premier Pro as it had many options in which we could edit the film. However, this was a brilliant tool to use as, once we had a better understanding, it proved to be vital in the production of our film when putting all the clips together.

Evaluation Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?