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



For the final segment of my evaluation I have been asked to look at things that could have been improved in regards to both my preliminary task and my final opening product. To do this, I will split the evaluation into three areas: Camera, Editing and Planning.

Camera

In regards to the camera work, my first point would be that we have made a significant improvement in the framing of our shots, below you can see the contrast between two  scenes - one from our preliminary shot, the other from our final edit and see the progress we have made :

The screenshot from our preliminary shows amateur framework setup, for a small amount of time during that scene, all that could be seen was a large amount of headroom. However on the shot underneath, from our final product - there is an improvement in frameworking, the shot shows both a small amount of location and the protagonist in equal light, highlighting the two most significant things about the scene clearly.

Editing

Whilst watching the two videos, I believe as a whole the editing on our final product was much more cleaner, and flowed better than the prelim. Whilst watching the two clips side by side I see significant improvements in the overall looks in regards to the production value, and effort put in to make each clip look like a professional output. The preliminary video was almost entirely composed of diagetic sound, that seemed to alter between different levels, bringing down the quality of the pieces sound. In contrast our final piece had a soundtrack played over the top, giving the piece more quality
Planning


Before any of those areas above could be covered, the stage of planning had to be initiated. Overall i think that this in fact is the most important stage.
Our planning of our prelim was almsot non-existent. It was just a simple case of coming together as a group, and devising our plot and suggesting to each other variations in camera angles that we could use to make our piece better.

Our final product took a much different approach. We were determined to make the perfect piece, which resulted in alot of arguments between peers at the beginning, but our work ethic overshadowed this and we came past it to enter the research stages. For this I researched into other successful films in the specific niche we were aiming for. Detailed storyboards were also made this time around to really justify and put in prespective the plot of our final piece.

While planning we had to pitch our ideas, get feedback from our proposed plot and watched various videos on YouTube to see ways of making a good movie great in terms of editing after our finish product had been filmed.

Conclusion


In conclusion I regard our work a success and the whole process helped me to gain a greater knowledge of the subject.