Evaluation Question 7

7) Looking Back at Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt in the Progression From it to the Full Product?

Our continuity exercise helped us in learning camera techniques, editing techniques and how to use continuity correctly. The two errors of continuity within our work we noticed was the clock in the background. Over the shoulder of the female character is a clock which jumps between different times, we had only noticed this when editing. When shooting our main task we made sure that there were no clocks in sight of the camera so that we couldn't make the same mistake again. We also noticed the globe on the desk was at different positions throughout the task. In between filming, it was spun so the part facing the camera changes as the clip goes on. When shooting our main task we made sure that we did not touch any thing that we didn't need to so it wouldn't be out of continuity, meaning when we had the pictures on the floor we were sure not to use them. When filming our continuity exercise, we learn t about the 180 degree rule and its use in our filming, i also learnt about the match on action shot, and how it can contribute to the relationship between characters, as well as including an over the shoulder shot, which is effective at showing one character's emotion's whilst hiding the other, to give a different viewpoint. Many things need to be taken into account when we were filming our continuity exercise, so that the continuity in our filming is kept up continuously.Shooting the continuity task also helped us to understand how to use sound. We learnt how load we had to talk so the microphones would pick it up and that the sound will be at different volumes when the camera is at different distances away from the action. we learnt this cause in the continuity task i was heard better than Joe cause i was closer to the microphone. Are Main task has no actually talking sound, but when filming the park scene we have natural sounds because it was outside.

When actually filming our final task, our group learn t not to be too reliant on each other, because many things could get in the way and prevent people turning up, or having the right equipment. For this reason, we made sure that every person in our group had a copy of the script and knew exactly what needed to be done, if a problem should arise, and one of the group members be missing, that way the others could still continue.
However, there is still a large amount of the project, where we needed to work as a group and rely on each other, be it some one bringing the camera or the tripod, or using some one's house to film. We had to be organized, to plan the time we had in and out of lessons to make the most use out of it. Often, we would use our double media lessons to go and film in the park, which was not far from our sixth form, or to go to one of the group member's houses to film the child in the bedroom.

I have also learnt that technology will let you down at some point, but we had to be prepared to carry on without it, rather than let it slow down our progress in some way. For example, when our work was prolonged because the burner did not work, we had to be patient, and wait for it to be fixed.