Evaluation 7 Preliminary task compared to Final film.

Preliminary task compared to my final piece "The Woods"

 

When we were first set to do our preliminary task, i did not know much about different types of shots and editing processes however, we were told to include the 180 degree rule, match on action, shot reverse shot. These are all the key shots to make your film flow naturally and keep the audience intreuged into watching the film. We included close ups, extreme close ups, over shoulder shot, low angle shot and high angle shot all in our preliminary task. When we showed two people talking in our preliminary task we made sure we stuck to the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot. This made sure the characters did not look like they are talking to themselves and makes it seem professional. We found match on action quite difficult when we were filming our  preliminary task as we found it hard to make sure we made the character stay in the same position to make sure the shot flowed and didn't jump from one to the other. This meant we had to take

a few shots at once to make sure we chose the best ones when we came to editing all the different shots. We weren't too sure at first how to work the editing software however we quickly were able to get used to it and make sure we use it to the best of our ability.  For our final film 'The Woods' we were able to use the techniques we had learned from our preliminary task and other techniques that we had researched to enable our film to be the best that we could do. We added more shots like, high angle, POV shot, underwater shot, low angle shot, close ups and many more. This made our film look very professional and allowed our film to flow well. Although we did not get a chance to use the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot as we focused on only having one character the whole way through the opening two minutes apart from the end where the antagonist come in; this meant we were unable to show this skill through a conversation that we would on had if we put another character in and had a script in the film. When it came to editing our final film, we found it a lot easier than we did when we were filming our preliminary task, this is because we had researched different techniques that you can use on Adobe to make our work as good as we can make it. The diegetic and non-diegetic sound that we used in our final film also made the shots look a lot better as they linked into one another and made the shots seem more extreme than they would without the sound or music in the background. We have also used match on action in our final film, although we were able to do it better from our preliminary task. We did this by making sure we made the camera very steady and making sure we kept the character I the same place and position so it flows and links the shots together well.