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.