Question 7

Question 7. Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task - What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To Full Product ?

As a group, we made our preliminary task based around no camera or editing skills. This meant that the task was a practice so that we could get a feel for the equipment we was about to use. The hardest part of our preliminary task was trying to use tracking. This was when our actor was walking from door to door and we wanted to film his feet. This became a struggle as doing it hand-held caused the camera to wobble too much but fixing it onto a tripod made the camera stationary. When editing the footage, it was incredibly difficult to meet the exam criteria. As first time users of the software we had to use 'Trial and Error'. When it came to researching, this was proven to be easy. We knew what we wanted to do and how to do so we just got on with it. We completed a story board but this was very rushed and was not very helpful as there was not much writing on there.

This made our film opening much more easier to film as we had already had a brief practice. We had had a feel for the cameras and knew what shots were easy or hard to complete. The planning became easier as we learnt that we needed to plan more to ensure that we was 100% sure on what we was doing all of the time. When it came to editing, it was so much easier. This was because we knew the basics of the software but not the more advanced techniques. This wasn't very hard to work out how to use them but some you just needed to experiment with and see what happened. We did struggle with the titles as we was unsure where to put them. We realised as a group that when watching films, you rarely take any notice of the titles scrolling past. Due to this we had to research and look into various films as to where they would be positioned. Adobe After-Effects was very hard to use, this is what we used to make our production logo. We watched a few tutorials on YouTube to learn the basics of the software.