Evaluation-Preliminary task,progression & learning

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

Although our first filming & editing tasks were done at a much more amateur level,they were huge eye openers into what it takes to make a film. Here we learned how the shot planning, active filming,raw footage and editing software all came together to make these short films. These films were instrumental in our experimentation with shot types and variety and I felt this variety came out the strongest in our final title sequence. I also think that it was this variety that helped create the feeling of momentum and speed within our films.It was really important to capture this feeling in our final title sequence so I am glad we were not shy to experiment with different shot types in our initial tasks.We really honed our editing skills in this period and I believe this was our strongest point.

I do feel though that we could have spent more time getting to know the special effects and their uses in Livetype and Final Cut Pro.If we had had more time I would have liked to experiment more with these programs and their uses.

-Jack Simpson

This task was intended to help us gain experience in using the camera and editing software and by prompting us to understand what shot types and editing techniques best create suspense, a theme that needed to be highly dominant in our final piece.

This meant that when it came to shooting and editing our final piece, we were much better equipped to do it in the least amount of time due to our prior understanding of how the camera and Final Cut Pro worked, and the various functions available to us.

In our preliminary videos, you can notice that our shots are of unnecessary length, which would have bored the viewer, and taken away from the fast pace we were trying to implement, thus suspense. Our lighting too has improved in the final piece as we knew how to manipulate it better to enhance the effect we wanted. There is also greater fluency in our shot transitions, which is evident in the part when the runner falls in our final piece. This shows the leaps and bounds we have come on in terms of editing.

- Luke Nightingale

-Bilal Salli

We have planned our match cut exercise and created a story board related to it. Our intention was to have two actors one which was a police officer and another which was a criminal. we had a variety of different camera shots including extreme closeup, mid shot point of view shot and different camera angles such as high and low angle. We have also used a lighting kit in order to create impact on the tense situation the criminal was in. the light was unseen in the mise en scene however the light was straight down at the criminals face creating tension.

Onur Kavruk

Our group had to do a match cut, over the shoulder shots, reverse shots and etc for our preliminary task. These were the two mini clip of practice shots we had done and gained knowledge and understanding about what is expected from the actual trailer we were going to create, it was to get used to the camera.

I think the editing in the preliminary was actually alright for a first time use on Final Cut Pro. However of course the final film/trailer was much better in terms of editing. Also as for the use of Final Cut Pro, we were much better at using it and gained better skills.

We did not use any editing in Soundtrack pro because we had dialogue in it and we though we did not need any sound or music. But now I think we should have used Soundtrack Pro and edited, making it much better.

For our Mis-en-scene, in the Preliminary we did not touch anything in the background because we didn't think it was that important, however in the final draft we took real serious on the mis-en-scene.