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

EVALUATION PART 7

In our Preliminary, our brief was a continuity task, and only required a short amount of footage, where a character walked into a room, sat down, spoke a few lines of dialogue with another character, and then left. We needed to show we knew how to work a camera and use a few basic skills, such as match-on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

WHAT BRIEF WERE YOU WORKING TO?

In this brief, it was less specific, and was simply to create the fi rst two minutes of a full feature-length fi lm, complete with a title sequence, and the beginning of the plot. We had more freedom to do what we wished in terms of eff ects, length of dialogue and cinematography.

In our Preliminary Task, we used a smaller and more simple Panasonic Camcorder, compared to the larger and more complicated Sony HD1000 we used for the shooting of our fi lm. Since the Sony HD1000 camera was a large step upwards from the Camcorder we used originally, we learnt how to use a larger camera with a wider range of settings and features, and how to overcome it’s large and harder to control size. In the end, we achieved and learnt a lot about how to use diff erent camera angles.

WHAT ARE THE THINGS YOU HAVE LEARNT SINCE THE PRELIMINARY?

The most important tool we learnt in Final Cut from the Preliminary is the cut tool, which is essential for trimming the cl ips down, and getting rid of al l the unnecessary parts.

An important thing I learnt is time management, and keeping on track of the work. This became evident that I needed to improve when editing the cl ips from the preliminary.

When editing the preliminary task, we found it more diffi cult since it was fi rst time using the program Final Cut. During our second time using it, we knew more about the tools and features that would help us edit our clips.

WHAT HAVE YOU GOTTEN BETTER AT?

We have used the editing technique of match-on action and we have improved our skil ls in this area to make them fl ow better and retain continuity.

We have increased the variety of our shots, and have now included everything from extreme long shots to extreme close-ups.

In our Preliminary, we only used stationary shots, where the camera did not move. With our fi lm, we also used moving camera shots, such as establishing shots and tracking shots.

Much of our methods we used in our fi lm we carried over from the preliminary task, as we found learnt a lot. However, there are a few things we developed:

> The type of camera we used Using diff erent settings on the camera, e.g. using

manual focus instead of Using diff erent styles of shots

HAVE YOU USED ANY DIFFERENT METHODS?