Beth (2162) Evaluation Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

EVALUATION QUESTION 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

By looking back at our preliminary task, I feel that I have learnt lots of new thing. Firstly I have learnt how to use final cut express properly when editing work. This includes adding effects to the opening sequence such as fading in and out. As a group we have also learnt how to use different camera angles to get different effects and how to frame a shot effectively by making sure only the necessary props and characters are in the shot. We also developed skills, such as working well together, making sure everyone’s opinions and ideas are heard and taken seriously. In our preliminary task we only used one editing technique which was match on action. This is ‘an editing
  technique in which one shot cuts to another shot. This gives the sense of the same action rather than two matching actions. In our preliminary task we had somebody jumping down the stairs. We only showed them jumping and landing but not the piece in between. This means you cut out the unnecessary parts and edit it to look as if you are jumping from one part to another.

Other techniques we could have used would have been the 180 rule, this is making sure the camera is only on one side of the action, if this rule is disobeyed it gives the impression that the actors’ positions in the scene have been reversed. We could have also used shot reverse shot this is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.