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

Foundation Production Question 7

From looking back at the task I have used a number of different skills in order to put in hard teamwork into my group. The premliminart task was a lot to organize but because there were three of us (after Cristi left) in a group it meant that we could all focus on a certain part to make sure we could make it the best we could. 

I focused on the camera work and the editing as those were the ones i was good at and most interested in. I offered to do the camera work as I have had a lot of practise in photography skills and making the audience feel a certain way for example through lighting. I did all of the filming for our sequence as i was the most skillfull at that and I used my own personal camera. I chose the use my camera as we learnt from our first cut that our shots wern't so sharp as it would be if we used a better quality camera.

Before and After

As you can see from the picture above that the right hand side picture is a lot clearer and sharper than the left hand side. This is an example of one of the things we have learnt from this task.

When we created the preliminary task we were also told to use Hollywood style editing, this is something I had never done before, plus to make things even harder no one in my group had ever done media studies before so none of us had the experience of editing which made our task slightly harder than anyone elses. However, I didnt see this a a negative as it meant that I was able to learn new skills to make me and my groups production as good as everyone elses. I like the way I edited the beggining of our sequence as my teacher shows me how to overlay and distort the images to give the impression that something isnt right. I played a key part with editing for our sequence as I came up with idea's such as: The begginning where there are many objects that don't seem normal and over lay them on eachother.



Example from our sequence

Example of our editing line

Here are some example from our sequence to show how i edited it and what it looked like in our sequence as well as on the editing line. This shows another thing i have learn from this task as it shows my skills have adapted as the start of this task i didnt know how to edit at all.

 

Working in a team was hard at stages as there were lots of debates on ideas and everyone wanted to share their opinion. I think me and my group did extrememly well with listening to eachother and putting in our individual skills in order to make our opening sequence at a high standard as possible. At the begginning of our task there was four of us but half way through out task one of our team mates (Cristi) decided to leave which put our group in a hard situation as it meant that we would all have to put in extra work to replace the member we lost.

 

Dan and myself working together

Dan Editing

Me and Beth Editing

 My ideas in the editing side

As i said before I did a lot of editing within our work as well as this, i also came up with ideas to show the audience that something isnt quite right in some parts as our genre was horror.

Black and White Shot

Here is a shot out of sequence. I chose to put it in black and white when i edited this part as i wanted to show that the man had a costume on and that would be the sight he could see. As well as this it shows the evil side as i enhanced the brightness and contrast to show Chiaroscuro lighting as you can see on the brick wall that one half is dark and one is light to show the contrast between the two characters in our sequence.
 

The preliminary task also told us we could have a maximum of 30 seconds, ensuring we didn’t overrun this is something we would have to take on board for the final production as we had a set time of 2 minutes. Our final production over ran one minute which meant we had to cut some of the shots and made sure our man on action shots were as tight as possible.We removed any shots that weren't needed or didn't show off any of our skills. The Preliminary task was an exercise designed to test mine and my groups ability to use a camera, and edit in a Hollywood style to create a more professional looking product. I believe we have done this through the way our production has its own style and the way we have edited it really well. In order to achieve a more meaningful reflection from our target audience, we had to learn how to apply our practical skills to take and edit more unusual shots that would scare and create suspense for our audience.