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

In both of the task's we have done this year, the preliminary and our final product we used similar techniques.

Also I've learnt a lot more professional camera work and movement to make our product the best it can be.

The Title Sequence

I like both of these title sequences as they both help emphasise the atmosphere we were trying to create as 'The Incident' we used a plain black screen and intense white font to create the spooky, eerie atmosphere which is highly contrasted to our final product as we put the title onto the frame in a bright pink swirly font to show that its going to be a girly film and be more of an upbeat experience.
I learnt over time that we were able to put the titles onto a frame instead of creating a whole new frame for each title which saved us a lot time.

The Editing

The editing we used in in our preliminary task seem a lot more simple compared to our final product as all we used mainly in our preliminary task is fade to black which at the time seemed to make the clip work whereas now we could of used a lot more transitions. Our final product we used more technical transitions and editing such as, slides, fades, dissolves, box out which made our film seem more childish which is how we wanted our product to seem to attract in the audience.

The Match On Action

We used match on action in both of the tasks we completed however we didn't use this certain camera and editing skills as much in the preliminary task as we did in the final product as we used many different types of camera angles, shots and movement during this frame.
I also think that our final product included more match on action as we learnt over time how to produce a perfect flow of action compared to our first attempt of filming.

The Shot Reverse Shot

In our preliminary task we used quite a few shot-reverse-shots as it was a scene of a conversation although in our final product we had a lot more frames in our film so we have more shot-reverse-shots in our final product than our preliminary task. I think we used them at the right moment of the opening sequence, for example, during conversations or to see certain characters expressions.

The 180 Degree Rule

For our preliminary task we had to make sure we stuck to the 180 degree rule to show our understanding on character positioning. We used this knowledge to help us in our final product to keep the characters in the right place and also to help continuity throughout our final product.

I've also learnt a lot more on Adobe while editing our final product as we spent more time trying to perfect our cross-cutting etc. We also knew more about Adobe for when it came to the final product because we slightly editing our preliminary task but as that was our first time on Adobe it didn't come out as well as our final product.
I also learnt more technical camera work to include in our final product to it seem more professional and higher budget.

By Alana