Question 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?
If I look back at my preliminary task, I feel I have learnt an unbelievable amount in terms of camera work, editing and even planning since then until now. During my preliminary task, I was quite unorganised and didn't fully appreciate the need to carefully plan out all of the shots needed, the need to do a storyboard in detail and the need to plan out my time carefully and make sure I stuck to a time schedule in order to make sure I got everything I needed. Whilst doing my preliminary task, I forgot a few shots that I needed to make sure I did the best I could do. The reason I forgot this is because I hadn't done my storyboard correctly and thought I had finished all my filming. I also hadn't stuck to my time schedule so I only had a few hours to sort out the missing footage and re-film and re-edit the whole task. If I had properly planned my time and made sure I had done my storyboard correctly, this problem would have happened. By making this mistake, I made sure I planned extremely carefully for all of my shots and made sure I had enough time to film everything and actually stuck to my time schedule.
In terms of camera work, I feel I have learnt a lot in this area because I have learnt that even camera work helps set the mood for a film and can help foreshadow the plot of some films. In my preliminary task, I didn't use a wide range of shots. I mostly just used mid shots, long shots and close ups which are three of the most popular shots to use. They don't provide much help to set the mood of a film subliminally so in my film opening, I used a wide variety of shots to help. I use low angle shots to suggest power and dominance because it gives the feel that the characters in the shots are looking down on you. I used high angle shots to suggest weakness, to give the impression that the character in the shot is being looked down on and disrespected. I used extreme close ups to help set the feeling of confusion it also makes the audience realise that yes, this person is obviously drunk because you wouldn't normally have your face that close up to your face. Also, in terms of camera work, I followed the 180 degree rule throughout the getting reading scenes and throughout the morning after scenes but not technically through the party montage because this helped create the idea of confusion and mayhem which was the feeling I was going for so I broke the 180 degree rule two or three times then to add that confusion.
For my editing, I feel I have come on in leaps and bounds in the amount I've improved/ During my preliminary task, I didn't really have any idea when I started the editing process. It wasn't until I had finished it that I was reasonably ok with using iMovie as my editing software. It took a long time and it involved a lot of googling "How to do..." and "What do I do when..." because things kept going wrong or I wasn't able to work out how to do something. So, even before I started editing my film opening, I made sure I was completely comfortable with using iMovie by making sure I knew how to add music in, edit effectively and make clean cuts etc. By the end of editing my preliminary task, I knew how to edit effectively whilst still making sure all my cuts were clean and made sense. I also took into account the amount of attention to detail it takes to edit. I wanted to make sure no one person was in two consecutive shots because it would have looked very odd and would have caused a lot of confusion. One thing I did struggle with was putting more than one track onto the footage but eventually I worked it out without even having to look it up on Google. Compared to the preliminary task, my match-on-action was a lot slicker and looked a lot better. The match-on-action happens when George Lamb (who plays Christopher) looks down at his hands and sees the blood. We go from a mid shot of him going to look down at his hands before cutting to a POV as he is looking down at his hands. It's very effective and I think it helps add some atmosphere to the scene.
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