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?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
From doing the preliminary task to creating my final product i have gained a lot of knowledge and have become able to use many programs to help create and edit productions. I have become a much more confident media student as i now know the key parts in editing and putting together media products. When filming my final product i felt alot more comfortable and confident as i had already had experience in using a camera and felt that i was able to use it to a good standard which helped to bring back excellent footage. I also felt more confident when it came to editing my final product as I had had a short insight into what i would have to do and how to use certain software's to enable me to put clips together and add effects to my production.
When I had to take part in the preliminary task i had no idea what anything was or how i was suppose to use it but this was because i had never done anything like media before. When the preliminary task begun i began to pick up more and more skills as i went along and began to feel alot more confident when placed behind a camera.
When comparing my preliminary task to my final piece you can see many differences between the two however some people may well notice similarities between them both aswell. The main difference is most certainly the quality of the footage. This was due to me and the rest of my group being new to using a camera so therefore spending most of filming time learning the basics needed to work a camera. So when i filmed my footage for the preliminary task i was unsure on how to use a camera properly but obviously when i filmed my footage for my thriller opening i had alot more experience behind a camera and new how to use certain effects and edits on the camera to manipulate my footage and make it look more professional. The fact that i got the chance to do the preliminary task before my final edit was a massive bonus as it meant when it came to making my final production I had alot more experience in all areas of the creation of a film. Another noticeable difference is that my preliminary task is in colour and my thriller opening is in black and white. This may be due to the fact that i actually only learnt how to change the colour of a piece of footage when i was editing my final piece therefore was not able to do it for my preliminary task however this could have been something to make my preliminary task better. The sounds used in my preliminary task were not thought about very well which meant they weren't as effective as they could be however when i added sound to my final production i put alot of thought into it and listened to a number of different sounds to help find the best one so that the sounds were more effective through out also helping to create more tension for my audience. Even though both my preliminary task and final piece are within the thriller genre my final piece has a lot more aspects of a thriller and alot more of the main conventions are used to make sure it fits in to the genre. One of the main conventions that is used more in my final piece is angled shots. This is used more in my final piece rather than my preliminary as i was still unsure of the main conventions of a thriller when i made my preliminary. My Final edit also contained opening credit's and title's whereas my preliminary film didn't. This straight away makes my final edit look much more professional as all films contain these things. It tells the viewer the name of the actors, the title of the film, the production company and so on therefore this is important because if my film was to ever get published these are things i would want the audience to know and remember. My titles for my thriller opening looked professional and effective as I was able to use good pieces of software to create them. Myself and Amy also put a lot of thought into them as we wanted them to stand out to the viewer and also fit in with hew thriller genre. We decided that we wanted the titles to be mysterious and dark but also bold so that they were obvious when the viewer was watching. Once we had created our titles we added an effect to them on Adobe Premiere Pro. The effect meant that the titles were on a black background and the piece of footage which had played before was behind the words, we thought this made a massive difference to the titles as it made them more interesting for the viewer. We also chose to add a colour to one letter on each title to make it even more effective. We also thought this was a good idea as the whole of our opening is in black and white so it would add contrast. When we was adding the colour we both came up with a interesting idea to have the letters in read spell out a word. We spent along time deciding how we was going to do this then realised if we put the titles in a certain order we could spell ' KILLER EX' which fit in perfectly with our storyline. When this idea came together in our film we was so happy with how it looked but were worried that our viewers may not notice it as its not something they will be looking for. If the reader isn't paying full attention to the opening titles then they wouldn't notice therefore this added context may not work and be effective.
The actors in my final piece acted alot more professional as they new it was important however when doing the preliminary task the actors within my film didn't take it very seriously as it was our first time filming and we all saw it as a learning curve. We saw it as a practice for our final piece and therefore spent more time learning how to use the camera and certain pieces of equipment so when it came to filming for our final production we all new what we was doing. Myself and Amy also put alot of thought in to the actors or actresses we were going to use as we wanted the characters to fit in to a certain stereotype to fit the storyline better. We also wanted the characters to have certain characteristics as when planning our storyline we thought certain things would look more effective than others for example we wanted the male character to have blue eyes.
Overall I have learnt more than I expected in progression from the preliminary task to my final product as I now feel a confident media student which I thought would be something to never come. When I first started media I knew nothing as I had never done anything to do with it before however I have made massive progression and feel comfortable now when talking about the subject.
When comparing my preliminary task to my final piece you can see many differences between the two however some people may well notice similarities between them both aswell. The main difference is most certainly the quality of the footage. This was due to me and the rest of my group being new to using a camera so therefore spending most of filming time learning the basics needed to work a camera. So when i filmed my footage for the preliminary task i was unsure on how to use a camera properly but obviously when i filmed my footage for my thriller opening i had alot more experience behind a camera and new how to use certain effects and edits on the camera to manipulate my footage and make it look more professional. The fact that i got the chance to do the preliminary task before my final edit was a massive bonus as it meant when it came to making my final production I had alot more experience in all areas of the creation of a film. Another noticeable difference is that my preliminary task is in colour and my thriller opening is in black and white. This may be due to the fact that i actually only learnt how to change the colour of a piece of footage when i was editing my final piece therefore was not able to do it for my preliminary task however this could have been something to make my preliminary task better. The sounds used in my preliminary task were not thought about very well which meant they weren't as effective as they could be however when i added sound to my final production i put alot of thought into it and listened to a number of different sounds to help find the best one so that the sounds were more effective through out also helping to create more tension for my audience. Even though both my preliminary task and final piece are within the thriller genre my final piece has a lot more aspects of a thriller and alot more of the main conventions are used to make sure it fits in to the genre. One of the main conventions that is used more in my final piece is angled shots. This is used more in my final piece rather than my preliminary as i was still unsure of the main conventions of a thriller when i made my preliminary. My Final edit also contained opening credit's and title's whereas my preliminary film didn't. This straight away makes my final edit look much more professional as all films contain these things. It tells the viewer the name of the actors, the title of the film, the production company and so on therefore this is important because if my film was to ever get published these are things i would want the audience to know and remember. My titles for my thriller opening looked professional and effective as I was able to use good pieces of software to create them. Myself and Amy also put a lot of thought into them as we wanted them to stand out to the viewer and also fit in with hew thriller genre. We decided that we wanted the titles to be mysterious and dark but also bold so that they were obvious when the viewer was watching. Once we had created our titles we added an effect to them on Adobe Premiere Pro. The effect meant that the titles were on a black background and the piece of footage which had played before was behind the words, we thought this made a massive difference to the titles as it made them more interesting for the viewer. We also chose to add a colour to one letter on each title to make it even more effective. We also thought this was a good idea as the whole of our opening is in black and white so it would add contrast. When we was adding the colour we both came up with a interesting idea to have the letters in read spell out a word. We spent along time deciding how we was going to do this then realised if we put the titles in a certain order we could spell ' KILLER EX' which fit in perfectly with our storyline. When this idea came together in our film we was so happy with how it looked but were worried that our viewers may not notice it as its not something they will be looking for. If the reader isn't paying full attention to the opening titles then they wouldn't notice therefore this added context may not work and be effective.
The actors in my final piece acted alot more professional as they new it was important however when doing the preliminary task the actors within my film didn't take it very seriously as it was our first time filming and we all saw it as a learning curve. We saw it as a practice for our final piece and therefore spent more time learning how to use the camera and certain pieces of equipment so when it came to filming for our final production we all new what we was doing. Myself and Amy also put alot of thought in to the actors or actresses we were going to use as we wanted the characters to fit in to a certain stereotype to fit the storyline better. We also wanted the characters to have certain characteristics as when planning our storyline we thought certain things would look more effective than others for example we wanted the male character to have blue eyes.
Overall I have learnt more than I expected in progression from the preliminary task to my final product as I now feel a confident media student which I thought would be something to never come. When I first started media I knew nothing as I had never done anything to do with it before however I have made massive progression and feel comfortable now when talking about the subject.
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