6. 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?

Sound

• Audio transitions - How did we manage to create a smooth consistent sound throughout our film? Tyler and I learnt how to use cross fades on our background noise so that cuts did not sound as sharp and badly put together. When two pieces of sound are put together, playing it without any reconstruction meant that our film would sound unprofessional and ‘cheap’. By learning how to use this we could achieve a professional and realistic edit that cuts out where the sounds would stop and start.

• Ambient sound - One thing that Tyler and I learnt from immediate feedback from Sir is the fact that there was no atmosphere within our film when we first out it together. There was a lot of silence which could have been filled, in doing this, Tyler and I searched Soundcloud for various sound effects that we could put into our empty space. It would have been hard to record real life sounds such as a ‘siren’ and a ‘horn’ therefore artificial ones made our editing easier. Tyler and I learnt that by doing this, it created a a more tense atmosphere which matched to our genre and improved the overall film by a huge amount.

Editing

• Split Screen - We learnt that by cropping two videos and placing them on top of each other we were able to create a ‘split screen’ effect. This is useful as it shows two pieces of footage playing simultaneously but in our film, added to the tension of the piece. After seeing this in other films and music videos, we liked the idea that the audience would be able to see both of our main characters view points at the same time. It was hard to create as Tyler had to learn a lot more about final cut pro during the process.

• Colour correct - Due to lighting, it is not rare to experience problems with the lighting whilst feeling. Tyler and I learnt that we would have to film our footage in a small amount of time so that the lighting could come out as best as possible. Colour correct had to be used when editing our film so that shots that were too dark could be viewed clearly to the audience and so that a consistent colour could be seen throughout.

Mise-en-scene

• Costume - One thing that we did not cover during our costume planning, is the fact that the costume effects target audience. This is one thing that we learnt during our planning. Most of the Mise-en-scene we thought about carefully during planning, therefore we did not learn much on the journey of making our film. However, we learnt that we would have to ‘dress’ Jadine in a respectable, mature style so that the target audience is not predominantly teenage boys. However, her style still has to be fashionable so that she apeals to a younger girl audience too .

Cinematography

As you can see from the image below, Tyler and I finished our preliminary task successfully and managed to use the rule of thirds appropriately. However, this took two takes as during the first filming, instead of being on

the left of third of the screen, I was seen sitting on the right third, which went against the rule as as you can see in the right picture, Alex is placed in the right third. (Unfortunately we can not show an example of the first take as the video has been deleted). The reason this would have been incorrect is because we wouldn’t have left enough space on the second and third third for the audience to imagine who I was speaking to. Therefore by

[;acing me on the left half of the screen, the space is left empty so the audience can imagine who I am having a conversation with, matching up with the match on action shot. Whilst showing sir our first version of the preliminary task, we had not even realised that we had gone against the rule, proving how hard it is to remember whilst filming. By then remaking the video and fixing our mistake, Tyler and I have learnt the

importance of the rule and the fact that it makes a huge difference to filming.

What mistake did we make?

How have we used our knowledge of the rule of thirds and adapted this in our film?

Here Tyler and I have used the rule of thirds within our ‘car scene’ to create a conversational atmosphere and so that

just like the other example, the audience can imagine the characters within the unfilled space. So how does this effect the scene? The thirds

create more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject would.