evaluation

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 7

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

shot/ reverse shot is a techneak that gives a really proffeshional effect to the audence with little effort to film which we found out while filming our preliminary task and as a group we all liked  the way it added suspense and kept the a otherwise boring part of the film interesting so it was a natural choice for a camera shot for our final project. editing the two pices of footage together was one of the hardest when it came to edditing and so took alot of time in the preliminary task and as we were on a limited time scale we had to waigh up if it was worth the time and so we decided that it would be worth some time getting it right then having a stright forward shot.  shot reverse shot works well in all types of cinematic media when a conversation is taking place because as the characters are shown facing opposite directions the audience assumes they are looking at each other . comparing the two shots it is easy to see how we have improved our filming techneak in many ways examples being; camera is more steady, script flows more, less pours in between the cuts.   

match on action has been used in two different ways in the final and the preliminary task, for the preliminary we used match on action to show our actors moment thought the door to add realism to the project as they was no atmosphere we where aiming to create comparing this to our final task where we use match on action to add emphasis on her knocking on the door shows the audience that this is a critical part in the film. This is different from the stereotypical use of match on action where in is only used for transitioning between locations but as we found the preliminary task match on action relatively simple we decided to challenge ourselves and try something more complex and i feel this worked really well overall to gain the effect needed. when we first attempted match on action in the preliminary task we only took 2 takes of the scene and assumed in would be okay but when we started to edit we realized that there were continuity issues`s in the shot that could not be re-filmed and so when we started on the filming for our final task we took multiple takes of every scene allowing us to have more freedom to pic the best one and not have to work with one that is not quite perfect. 

in our preliminary task there was no use of angles and i feel this could of been experimented a bit more with to gain the experience needed for a successful final project so we decided to use both high and low angels. the low angel shown in the second picture was used to differentiated between a location in the house that we have used twice before in a very short time (female character opening the door and killer moving up the stairs) but also puts the audience where they would feel most emotive towards the victim as the audience would want to shout at her not to go up the stairs. looking at the preliminary task we have used very simple movements and camera angels which i feel makes it look very plane and would not fit for our horror genre where typically the camera changes angle to create different effects at any given moment, we have tried to re-create this effect on a smaller scale as to not give a jumpy effect that could be crated when working within a 2 minute time scale. 

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
 what you learnt about it/from using it. 

annotated camera, sorry it had to be big so you could read the writing

The first picture (top left) is of the camera we used to film the project it is a Panasonic HM-TA1 different from the one our school provided us with, we started off filming with the schools one but because we were mainly using artificial light the end product was yellowish whereas the one shown seemed to handle the light better and looked more realistic when it came to the editing. from this i have learnt that before we shoot our film we should do a test shot to see how it comes out on the computer that way we don't waste time having to re-shoot scene where the lightning isn't good. the camera its self was really easy to use, it is my camera so i have used it before which helps use the camera to our advatege and means we did not lose time trying to work the camera.


The next picture along (clockwise) is the logo of adobe Photo shop. we used photo shop more than we expected to but with the pictures in the opening 25 seconding needing edditing e.g redtint we ended relyling on it to creat the final effect. when i first started useing Photo shop i had never used it before and so i found it hard to work but thankfully two members in my group Lauren and Beth use it in another subject and were able to teach be the basics and at with a couple of pratics runs i managed to get the effect i wanted. i now know how to use photoshop with the help of my group but if i was working on my own i would of found it impossible to do and so i am now going thought diffrent programs to ensure i know how to work them


Youtube- we found youtube a very easy to use as all members of our group use it normaly and so know time was waisted trying to work it. anothere advantage of youtube was that all members of the group could acess the material that we wanted to upload on to our blog, which was easy as blogger has a partership with youtube. what i learnt form youtube is that it is possible to annotate the footage with a prevously has no knowlage of .


Adobe Premeria elemets, PR symbol, was what i found the hardest to use for a number of reasons firstly because none of the group has ever used it before so we were mostly working on a trail are error bases, learning from what went really wrong and made sure we didn't do it again. from this bit of equipment i learnt the importance of saving work every time we make a change to our opening due to it crashing because of the files size we were working with.


The tripod was one the easier thing to pick up, possibly because they was nothing to go drastically wrong with it, picking up how to use the tripod also worked of a trial and error bases but was very easy to work out the best and fastest way of getting the tripod ready for the next shot. the tripod worked of a series of retractable feet allowing you to adjust the height also another way to add height was by a the head of the tripod making it drastically higher, areal shot. 


Blogger, was like most pieces of technology in this course was hard when learning how it works but easy once you get the hang of it. i have found blogger very easy to use and a grate way of showing my creative side, once i manage to get the pictures where i want them to go which was hard at times. i have learnt form this technology that i can be creative with what i do and not simply display the information in one set format.