Evaluation question 7: Renewed

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Question 7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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Question 7Looking back at your preliminary task, what do

you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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Beginning: Preliminary task

• From the preliminary task, I believe I have learnt a lot about what it takes to construct a film and its not easy. When we were told to do our preliminary task, me Deon and Richard (my group members) filmed it straight without no storyboard. It came out good, and then we drew up the storyboard afterwards which was a smart move but no a good move to make when doing the main task.

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Using Technology

• But before filming we took pictures for the preliminary task which we shot using a blackberry Smartphone camera which was easy to work with because the whole group had one which meant we were familiar with the technology. The phone was also used to film the task. I learnt what match on action, shot reverse shot and 180 degree rule was which was new for me and the preliminary task gave me a little insight into what filming will be like.

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Photos from the Preliminary

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Planning

• Because we never planned properly in the preliminary by drawing the storyboard before filming, I learnt that its essential to create a storyboard so it acts as a guideline for your final product. We learned from our mistakes and constructed a storyboard for our main task which was after we came up with a storyline.

• The storyboard we created helped a lot when we started filming because we knew exactly what we were doing and didn’t miss a scene. I would say in terms of props, location & costume, they have improved a lot and its mostly due to careful planning and research.

Preliminary storyboards

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• As for the main task the location also had to be significant to the purpose of the genre and what you’re trying to show. We used a forest, police station and kitchen, which were effective with the storyline. So personally I would say I’ve learnt a lot about how to plan and research into certain things in order to create a film. We didn’t even shoot a whole movie but just creating those three minutes was hard work so I cant imagine the amount of effort that directors, writers, the whole film crew experience from beginning to the final product.

• With the costume in the preliminary, it didn’t really portray anything and didn’t have much meaning behind it but when doing the main task the costumes worn by each character had meaning and it symbolised many things which is essential in any film whatever the genre. In terms of location we could of shot the task in any room we wanted as long as there was something the actors could sit on.

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Actors/extras

• Casting was a problem to us in the beginning because we originally was going to be all three of us in the film but our teacher said its better if we use other people so we could show our filming skills more. This then left us with the question “who will be our actors?”. Richard had already been suggesting Abiola who played our antagonist but the girl or boy who would play our protagonist was not decided yet. It was originally going to be me but we changed that plan and last minute Jenessa offered to be the protagonist so we accepted as time was running out.

For the detective we used Richard because he was the best choice, and we asked fellow student Kelechi to be the extra detective sitting in the office as shown on the right. For the last scene we asked some of the students if they wanted to be extras to fill up the scene and they said yes, so we used a few people. Picking actors to fit the plot and scenes is not as easy as it sounds but for our opening it was quite simple

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The extras who will play Mandy our protagonist friends. They fit the scene well because she's suppose to be at home on a casual day ‘chilling’ with a few friends when she receives her letter from the stalker/attacker.

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Editing/Planning

• If I’m honest I don't think our final product was that great because I feel there's more we could of added to it or things we could of changed to make it much better. For starters I would say timing was a problem because there were certain things we had to rush in so little time. Although we were given 2weeks to shoot, we wanted to make sure our blogs were up to date and make sure we’ve planned everything through before filming.

• Timing with the editing also proved an issue because we only got two days editing which was done in lesson time so in total it was 10hours to edit. We never met the deadlines of editing when we had two days but when it came to blogging I met the deadlines of the task I was set. We carried on editing though up until the deadlines for the whole project.

• I’ve had experience before with finishing a project within 1o hours because I took art GCSE and I know its not enough time. So I knew editing would be a problem form before we even started filming and I mentioned it may times to the group. Because of timing, we had to finish editing another time but we got it done and finished our final product

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Planning: Blogger & Youtube

• We also used blogger a social networking site, to do our planning and research. This site was quite tricky to use at first but after blogging once or twice it became an easy task

• I uploaded some videos to Youtube and then sent it to blogger e.g. the preliminary task before editing, and the video diaries. This was because one or two videos were not uploading properly so I had to think of another way to make it happen. On the right is a screenshots of Blogger & my posts

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Editing: Software, websites etc…

Screen shot of me editing the preliminary task on imovies which I then uploaded to Blogger with the final cut of the preliminary. We each did our own separate editing.

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Screen shots: Main task

Screen shots from when we were editing on the iMACs using imovies software to edit the main task. The editing is the tricky part because we were doing trial and error to see how to use certain effects and transitions etc which was a good learning process. It let me know what to expect in A2 so now I have an insight into how it works so maybe I can get through editing quicker.

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Team work?

• Overall I think group effort could of improved because there were times when I felt like it was just me and Richard doing all the work but then we’d talk to Deon and tell him what we expect from him.

• I feel like communication could of improved between the group and certain group members could of done more in the filming process. But

I did learn to voice my opinions more because we are a team and if we want to get good grades we have to say how we feel whether it hurts feelings or not. So were not only doing it for individual reasons but to help each other progress for when and if they take it on into A2.

The team

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Overall• Looking back at the

preliminary task to the final product, I think I have progressed in terms of confidence and this has allowed me to see what I’m capable of if I put in hard work. Comparing the quality of the camera I used in the preliminary to the quality of the digital camera I used in the main task, I can tell there's a huge improvement.

• Hopefully in A2 my confidence with using digital cameras will be better and I’ll have a better experience and enjoy it more. On the other hand these events have given me an insight into the professional media industry and the issues they face within. In addition, I’ve experienced the editing software on the iMACs, but I’m still not fond of using it because I’m an amateur when it comes to it. Furthermore, I’ve learnt how to use sound, Mise-en-scene and editing to create a certain atmosphere in the thriller genre, and how to make use of your surrounding because every part counts when creating suspense and engaging the target audience.

• The equipment such as the camera and the tripod were troublesome but hopefully in A2 we’ll get better equipment or maybe my group will use our own equipment. I've learnt a lot and I will take my experience and use it to my advantage next time because I have gained confidence in my own judgement and use of technology and skills. Practice makes perfect and that’s what I’ll keep doing so there will be fewer mistakes and issues.