7. looking back at your preliminary task

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?

By Ryan Gurney

Preliminary task video

• Criticism 1:Because we didn’t use a tripod properly whilst filming some shots it made the camera shake which affected the quality of the film and how it was viewed by the audience.

• Criticism 2: It took 13 seconds for anything to happen, this was important as the audience were starting to get bored following the main character around.

• Criticism 3: From the beginning up to when the characters start to talk there is a lot of background noise. This may have annoyed the viewer or it may not have made any sense to the viewer as to what was going on. We could have removed the background noise and applied background music.

• After going through the preliminary task with my class I have seen that there is lots of areas to do with the camera work I need to work on to make my film look more realistic and easy for the audience to watch.

My film movie opening

• Improvements 1: I covered up all the background noise which wasn’t needed for my opening with background music. This gripped the audience better than my preliminary task which could have annoyed the audience.

• Improvements 2: I used the tripod correctly this time so the shots didn’t shake so it didn’t irritate the audience like in my preliminary task video and made the viewing much nicer.

• Improvements 3: From the beginning it took 12 seconds for something important to happen which meant that it didn’t bore the audience like the preliminary task video and kept them interested.

• While making this film I have made sure that I didn’t make the mistakes that I did in the preliminary task and I have added more improvement to apply to the audience and to make it look more realistic and scary