LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU

FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM THERE TO

YOUR FINAL PRODUCT?

Q7

Evaluation Josie Askem

CAMERA

Before the shooting for the preliminary task, I didn’t know a lot about filming, especially using the Cannon D600. It is evident from the shaky, unfocused shots in our preliminary, that none of us had much of an idea

what we were doing. After doing research into how to use the camera

properly, and picking up tips and tricks along the way, it is clear we have all learnt a lot from the difference in quality in our final construction from our preliminary. To overcome the shaky parts from our preliminary, we

used a sturdy tripod and to rectify the focus, we watched a few YouTube videos.

Personally, I have also learnt a lot about ‘the rule of thirds’ within imagery as well as the above.

LIGHTING

Our preliminary task was just lit by the original lights of the room as we had no even considered lighting

when filming it. It is clear that this is the case as the whole room is lit evenly and nothing particularly stands

out more than the background does.Evidently, we learnt a lot about lighting as in our

opening piece, lighting is one of the main features to give it the feel that it has. We spent a lot of time

researching into lighting, and setting up the artificial lights in different arrangements to see which worked

best, before doing our final filming.

EDITING

The editing of our final construction is much more professionally clean cut than that of our preliminary task.

It is also evident that we used an array of visual and sound effects within our final piece, where we didn’t

even consider this in our preliminary.The time spent on editing our preliminary was less than

half of that which was spent on our final piece, which resulted in jumpy shot changes and unwanted

background noise.To make sure this didn’t happen in our final piece, we

constantly watched it back after editing even the smallest thing and used more complex editing techniques (after looking up tutorials), spending a lot more time and having a lot more care with the editing of our final piece.I feel that in myself, I could confidently now edit to a fair standard using Final Cut Pro, given the right amount of

time, whereas before I would not have had any clue where to begin.

SOUND

Our preliminary task has no non-diegetic sound, and includes very heavy unwanted background noise (as well as a small amount of directors voice) which we didn’t really consider trying to get rid of. The sound also varies in volume as the actors move around the microphone, as well as the position of the camera

moving. When editing our final piece, we figured out how to

erase the background noise, and then added a music track over the top all the way through as non-diegetic sound. To give the piece more of a realistic feel, and

interact with the reader more, we spent quite a while figuring out what background noise to keep in, such as the cocking of the gun, and the placing of the bullet on the table. We also got a few sound effects from Final Cut Pro, and online (such as the gun shot and sound

track) to complete the piece.

Focus

Editing

Lighting