EVALUATION QUESTION 7

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Ans.  The preliminary task was an activity that we did in the beginning of the year and this was the first time I shot a film and edited it. The end product had a lot of problems in it, there is too much light that is blocking the actors face and not giving a clear understanding of the representation. Another problem that i faced was with the voice, as this makes me realize that from next time I will have to use a mic. Now that I look at the prelim I can critically analyze it and have noticed that I didn’t take care of the 180 degree rule and there are a lot of jump cuts. It was a first time experience with everything shooting, editing, lighting and sound. It was a lot of fun shooting the prelim even though it was a short lasting experience at that time, after this we were introduced to the adobe premiere software. The editing had many lose hooks and there were obvious jump cuts. Dialogues could not be heard clearly which disconnected the audience from what was happening in the video.

Now when I compare the prelim video to my final product there is a massive difference. There is a proper technique followed and entire paper work is done before going for shoot. Story boards are made, scene division and shot division have helped during the shoot as on location you panic and forget scenes that are needed to be shot. I recorded the room tone so the voices during the shoot can be covered, my source of light was sun so no artificial lighting was used. I didn’t have to work on my mise en scene the location I chose had all the look that I needed for my film.