Looking back at the preliminary task, what did you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
The simplistic ares of the preliminary task was understanding how to move the camera and how to angle it correctly to capture the desired framing, the difficulty invoked from developing match on action, it seemed to stem from invalid levels of perception as the problem I had was that the actor I had employed appeared to use her left hand to shut the door and then used her right hand to shut it and not in sequence so this derived a problem fortunately I had acquired a shot fortunately where the door had been shut with the same hand so we changed the point of the cut however it appeared rather disappointing, this helped us to take extra care in our final production as we had noticed after looking again small mistakes that we had made and we knew how to deal with them to create a better opening. Another problem was that the sound did not quite go together during the dialogue, this was hard however it did teach me that continuity must be checked with a fine toothed comb, and that as a producer more attention must be placed in the production in micro elements as well as macro elements. As a whole the prelim task did help but not enough with some requirements of the movie opening such as volume envelopes and other things that were needed but never covered in the preliminary task.
We learnt about in the preliminary task the 180 degree rule which was about not crossing the line in a shot reverse shot and this helped as we almost crossed the line in our major production but realized before we recorded it that we had broke the rule and would not get a decent enough mark for it.
Research and planning, as there was no actual audience for the product and was a practice their was no real research and planning needed to create a worthwhile product, instead we had been given a script to read out, as we where given the script it did not create and foundation to thew knowledge of how to make our own scripts later on.
We made storyboards for our preliminary task and our main task, since the storyboard process and usage is essentially the same minus the topic itself the concept is the same so the storyboard process and so the preliminary task one did prepare us and give some insight for the next time we do one and was good practice for the main tasks storyboard.
Construction, since we had used the editing software, cameras, boom mics and tripods for the preliminary task we were fairly familiar with the techniques and general usage for this equipment for our main task which helped our main task as we did not have to go over how to use the equipment and how to upload and edit it we could get started without many interruptions for learning how to do things, with the exception of complicated techniques such as creating and using a volume envelope.
Evaluation, We had to use blogger to upload to video to you tube and such so we practiced how to finish the clip by rendering and how to upload it to you tube, this helps our main task as we get familiar with blogger and the uploading process which meant we did not have to waste time learning about it, we could get on with it without any interruptions.
Answer the question! What did you learn across the 2 tasks - talk about each stage - storyboarding, scripting, shooting, acting, editing, etc.
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Evaluation looking like a low-mid level 4 at the moment, mainly as this doesn't fully answer the question. Well done otherwise, but aim for a high A. Take a look at your emails – I’ve sent out some exemplar work for you to look at. This needs a little more emphasis on the main task and how you'd grown since the prelim task in all areas (R&P, Filming, editing, etc.). Include the film and stills from it here too (and throughout your blog).
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