Evaluation Activity 7

Looking back on to the Preliminary task my partner Sarah Gorman and I did, and the film opening we have done I feel we progressed greatly. I think the editing has improved a lot, it is a lot smoother now than in the Preliminary task and we have involved more editing skills in the shots, such as the 180 degree rule and the shot/reverse shot used in our film opening. I think there is far more technical ability with the editing, for example the jumping edit we used twice in the film which I think was quite successful. More improvement with the editing is the colour/lighting that we were able to change on iMovie, for example in our film the opening scene has an effect called ‘hard light’. Also we learnt how to add music to our film therefore it brought a whole new level of new editing skills that the Preliminary task did not hold. For our Preliminary task, there were set things that we had to do (involving a seated conversation between two people and a number of different camera shots), so we were quite limited as to what we could do. Whereas the film opening we produced was all our own ideas, I think with this in mind, it made our film far less staged and therefore had a sense of realism to it. I think the camerawork was more successful as we were able to use a wider range of shots that were not involved in the Preliminary task, such as the hand held camera to create the sense of somebody being chased - therefore adding to the tension. Overall I believe that the Preliminary task was a starting point for both me and my partner and we progressed a lot for the film opening we produced as we were more familiar with the technologies we were using.