Part 8 Evaluation

Looking back at your Preliminary task , what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full project? 

 





Digital Technology :

The digital technology i used for the making of my preliminary task , was the use of HD cameras as well as I movie programme. As it was my first time using an I movie programme i had to adjust to it , my preliminary task exploited my Skills on the Imovie i believe. Due to the fact i was new to the software and had never before touched this sort of programme and was not used to editing. Which meant i had to learn a lot of things in a short period of time , and my whole preliminary task was rather lacking the skill which i later gained. However the use of a HD camera did benefit in my preliminary task , because it was mobile for the sort of task i was asked to do. Therefore i realised that the continuity editing would not be easy but it would look very good if i used it on this HD camera. The continuity editing on this preliminary task was a bit rough however i still managed to keep it smooth. This was one aspect which i bettered when making my British social realism opening sequence , i had better contiguity exercise. Another thing which i bettered in my opening sequence was my skills on i movie , the credits on my opening sequence where used more wisely and efficiently than in my preliminary task,

 

 

Creativity :

During my preliminary task the story line was a bit brief and was used a lot. However i did keep a mystery in a character creating enigma. However one disadvantage would Be that this was very common and not very innovative. I took this experience of being very common and used it to inspire me when i was making my British social realism film. In my plenimary task i didn't use many British social realism themes which did prove to be a downfall. For my British social realism opening sequence i had bettered the story line immensely. By using more elements of British social realism as well. However the main factor to my success of the opening sequence compared to the plenimary task was the originality of the work. It was all original which required out of the box thinking , but inspiration from other British social realism films. For example the enigma between what character was talking to my character compared to my story line of Yusuf boycotting his religion to do sports shows how i have improved in creativity. My opening sequence has a darker theme towards it as well as a darker story line,

 

Post production :

The editing on my plenimary task , consisted of a titles as well as credits. The disadvantages was that there was a massive jump from my Title to my actual piece on the plenimary task. Whereas in my opening sequence for my British social realism was better as i faded the black background into my boxing glove for the first shot. This proved to be a lot more effective than my other title because the preliminary task title had no relation towards what was going to happen next. This shows how i have developed my skills because i can now use the software to my advantage , as well as the facts i can use the shots which i got better. Because in my plenimary task there was a lot of unwanted shots but i had no option to use them which caused a massive jump , however in my opening sequence i used this to my advantage and this occurred for my fade in fact. Where i faded the black background into UN-wanted footage of my boxing glove.

 

 

Research and Planning :

First of all the planning for my plenimary exercise did not go bad at all. The key scenes were shot , and the specific type of shots needed in order for a certain effect were done. However a drawback of our planning would be that we did not take into consideration our access towards a few things. For example our planning had said we needed a dark room with no light coming in. We could not pull of the room with no light , this affected our production immensely as we could not get the best effect. However in my opening sequence we took into consideration what was available to us and how easy it was to access it. And we wrote a lot more options for it which is where our research came into it. It went down a lot better as our boxing alleyway was not accessible however we used another alleyway shown in my final opening sequence. This shows that our skills in research and planning has bettered immensely as instead of comprising we had different alternatives set up and we made sure that it does not effect my production of my opening sequence as it did effect my production of the preliminary task.