There is a vast difference between our preliminary task and our main task, I feel that the main task is a big improvement on the preliminary. Here are both of the videos for comparison.
Even though the preliminary task was all about continuity, we made a few continuity errors. The first of the continuity errors was to do with an actors bag. At the 0:06 mark the actors bag is on his bag, yet when the next shot comes in at 0:09 his bag is gone. The second continuity error is further in. This occurred because we had to film at two different times, but the second time the location was not available to us so we had to find a similar looking place to film the reverse shots. ( seen between 00:15 to 00:18 and 00:20 to 00:28 etc... )
I feel that out time organisation went a lot better than on the preliminary task. At first we made a calender on Google calendar, this helped us to make sure all the work was done on time and that we didn't end up getting behind. We also used a storyboard to make sure that we had an idea of what the film would look like before we made our final decisions on exactly what would go in the movie. After making that we chose to create an animatic using photographs from a DSLR camera. This gave us an even better of an idea of how the video would look. When it came to the time to do the actual filming we had brought along a shot list to help us organise the shots, to save time we made sure that all of the costumes had already been selected and were ready to use. Whilst filming we made sure that we had stuck to our previously made risk assessment.
We felt much more confident with the editing program (Premier Pro) the second time around, and I feel that it showed in the end result. The experience from making the preliminary task really helped us whilst editing. Some things, ( such as titles and adding music ) we had to learn along the way. The cuts between shots are a lot cleaner in the main task, compared to the preliminary, this is also due to the experience from editing the preliminary task. The cuts are much more precise and everything seems to generally run smoothly. Unlike in the preliminary task, we used music. This involved finding a copyright free piece of music from the internet and saving it as an mp3 file, from there we could use it in premiere pro. We also sped up and slowed down some clips, which we didn't do in the preliminary task. This changed the pace of the video to hopefully make the audience feel different emotions.
When filming the preliminary task, we had not placed the camera in particularly great places. In one of the shots the actor almost hits the camera. This time around we made sure that the camera placement wasn't just random, we tried to change the readers perception of certain characters, such as the killer, by the angles and depth of field of the shots. We also found that in certain situations, its fine not to use a tripod. Sometimes it's actually better, as I feel it can give a shot a slightly more rugged feel if the camera is moving slightly.
The biggest think that I think I have taken away from this product is the importance of camera placement. A characters entire persona can be totally shifted just by changing the camera angle slightly, or changing the focus of the camera.
There is a proficient understanding of issues around, audience, institution, technology representation. The understanding of forms and conventions is more basic.
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There is a clearly proficient understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.
There is proficient ability to communicate.
There is proficient skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.