Evaluation question 7

‘Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel like you have learnt from the progression from it to the full product?’

After finishing our final product, we learnt to smoothly edit a match on action, which very much helped create verisimilitude. The match on action in our preliminary is quite smooth but does not entirely match the next shot. However in our final product the match on action appears seamless. We also learnt how to properly use the 180-degree rule. We did use it properly in our preliminary but the focus on characters was different for each, whereas in our final product the rule is used effectively and accurately.

In our preliminary the camera is quite shaky and unstable, which took away from the professional look of our piece. However in our final piece we learnt from our mistake and made sure the camera was stable the whole way through, especially for the movement shots like the tracking shot in the park.

In our final piece we used a great variation of camera shots and movements, which in contrast to our preliminary, has improved a lot. In our preliminary we lacked varying shots, and even the movement was either shaky or rough which can be seen by our shaky hands when attempted to do a tilt. In our final piece however we used different shots to connote different messages and meanings to truly conform to the genre and set up a proper film opening whilst still conducting a professional feel to our film.

Our editing for our final piece is far better than the editing for our preliminary, with seamless continuity editing and able to control the pace and rhythm. The editing in our preliminary is disjointed and rough, extracting the verisimilitude. The editing in our final piece helps create enigma and truly sets up the pace of the film, whereas the editing in our preliminary just seemed adequate and almost meaningless.