Looking at your Preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Looking back at my preliminary
task I have progressed in many useful skills that will help me achieve a better
quality with future production. First and foremost I have learnt that it is
best to work on a film with other people. From being the outsider of other
people’s production I have seen that it is a very collaborative experience and
hard to pull off by yourself as there is a lot more time and effort involved
and there have been many times where I have not coped under pressure.
Pre-production
I came up with interesting ways
to plan my ideas and inspiration. Mostly through the aid of mind maps, note
making and using blogger as a way of collecting all my inspiration. The
internet was a key device in this stage. I found this stage of production the
most fun as it was the most creative but challenging as it is hard to stick to
one idea when I had so many I wanted to bring to live through the film medium
in my head.
Production
This was the first time I had
used a camera to record a film so I found this stage full of challenges.
However, I enjoyed working behind the camera and I learnt all sorts of things I
didn’t know before such as how to set up a tripod correctly and how to frame a
shot appropriately which inevitably I used the bridge on the camera to zoom in
and out. Also I learnt how to record using a microphone and a camera to record
voice over narration, a crucial part in my production.
Editing has become much easier as
I have progressed further in my production. Some of the most useful editing
skills I found were:
-The ability to change the volume
of sound using volume control
-The cut and razor tool. The
razor tool became particularly important when wanting to change the volume of
sound in a specific part
-Video transitions such as dip to
black or dissolve
I kept editing fairly simple to
keep in style with the social realist film which rarely uses these kind of
effects. This is to make the film look as realistic as possible thus believable
to the audience. The editing software I used was Adobe Premiere CS4.
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