The Prelim
I think that I have progressed a lot in various ways from using the camera, editing & sound to just generally composition and creating a story.
How have I
progressed from the prelim to the main task
I think I have developed in many ways since the prelim task.
Probably the biggest improvement I’ve noticed is using the camera to get
different angles and also improvement on my continuity editing.
This is noticeable as you can see the transition in quality
from the prelim to the main task. It can be down to many things like spending
more time developing a storyboard and making sure we know what we are doing
when it comes to filming so we get better quality shots and nothing is rushed.
With the continuity editing I think the way we planned on
spending the time by doing the filming in blocks so that we had more time to
spend doing editing also helped improve our final task compared to the prelim
one.
Development
of technical skills – Camera, Sound editing, editing, continuity editing and
construction of story and character.
In the prelim it is quite obvious that I didn't quite know
how to use the white balance on the camera we used as well as lighting so
therefore some of our shots were a bit underexposed or exposed. In the final I
experimented using the manual focus which you can see in our final cut.
To make sure we emphasized certain sounds we wanted we used
the external mic, like we did in our prelim so we could sample the sound from
that instead of using the camera’s; This we also did in our prelim but I feel
it was more successful in the final as we had already gained experience before
on how to try and cut it into the video easily.
We also used it for the parts where the camera audio wasn't
very good, which meant I had to sync up the audio to certain points on the
video (syncing when someone was speaking).
For our final I wanted it to flow well and look smooth when
changing angles and cutting from transitions. To try and do this I made sure
that each clip when put together made sure that whoever was in the frame was in
the same area from the other angle, which I did attempt in the prelim but it
didn't go as well as it did in the final, where it looks far better.
The final task I feel that by using all the techniques
mentioned above it helped create character and really made you focus on the
story easily without being distracted so much by the things that went wrong or
you weren’t meant to see.
How else we
could have improved
We could have improved by acting more professional during
filming (i.e. using phones which therefore left an audible mark on the
recordings). This meant that we had to search through all our recordings to try
and cover up the parts where it started buzzing.
There are a few shots we left in the final cut which I’m not
totally happy about/don’t like as much, but they do work well with what we have
even if my favourite bit of a scene we filmed didn’t make the final cut due to
time restrictions or it affected the overall flow of the whole thing.
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