Evaluation, Question Seven

Looking back at my Pliminary task, I honestly feel I have progressed a lot since the early days on my course. When looking back at our group dynamics, I can feel the difference, as I feel it is more professional this time round as we weren't squabbling over who got to press record and so on so forth. I feel that our organisation improve massively since our first project because this time round we had created a plan in order to stick to, so we weren't running around last minute for the smaller details.

Although from our first task I was able to take some skills, for instance, my camera shots for our current task were more steady, compared to my shots within the first task. I was also able to gage how long a shot, or a set of shots would possibly last when at our location, due to experience, also we were able to use a variety of shots due to the experience we had first had, therefore allowing us to gain the best possibly mark we can within the module.

When comparing shots that were in products, we can see a full change in how we came to do them, for example, without our first task with the match on action, as you can see, our editing skills set us back as far as to say the shot(s) looked so unrealistic., when compared to our match on action in our film opening.  

Also from experience from the first task, I was able to work on my direction skills, for example, we see a very, 'subtle' costume change within the first project, therefore showing that we had filmed on more than one day, but also showing that I had no control on our actors, which was a problem that needed to be fixed.


I also think that my coursework film opening is a big improvement to that of my first task because I believe I took a big learning curve within the media course, in the sense that I learnt how to understand how to frame, that variety of shots keep the audience interested, and also how to edit on the mac, which at the beginning of the course, I could barely use the mouse let alone edit our film media products.