Evaluation question 7

Evaluation Question 7 looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I have learnt lots more since doing my preliminary task and most of these stills I have learnt since have helped massively to finish my finally piece.

Mise en scene is one thing I have improved on since my preliminary task which was set in a school location without much thought. For my film opening I have learned that it is massively important to have the character dressed correctly for their role and to have a great location that suits what is happening in the scene. We took lots of time to find a perfect location for our film opening and had to find an area that looked like a meteor had hit and we found a forest that had a great opening which had a ditch that looked perfect for our meteor crash site. We also made sure that the character looked the part and like a normal teenage guy where clothes similar to what teens today wear and is wearing the common high street brands often seen worn by teenagers.

We also put a lot more care into the camera angels we used and made sure we used detailed angles to keep the movie looking fresh and interesting and so included camera angles from the characters point of view. We did this when picking up the meteor and also filmed a dark scene which led to a bright light on my face to add mystery to the character.

Editing was probably the thing improved on the most in our film opening. In our preliminary task we had some little cuts and added music. However our film opening had lots of clever fades and cuts to make our character look like he had the superpowers. It took us a long time to finish all the editing but it was defiantly worth it.

We also did a lot more detail on the titles as we felt that it needed to match the quality of our whole video and we also made sure we added each role people played in the film and had to do research that we didn’t do in the preliminary task to find out what order the credits should go in.

Planning was another big thing that we did much more of in our final piece than we did with or preliminary task as we felt it was much more important to make sure we had everything planned out to try to make sure no mistakes would be made and to also all have an idea of what it was we would be doing.