Saturday 4 May 2013

Main Task - Post 12.7 - Question 7

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

1) In the preliminary task when it came to editing, it's fair to say that none of us were too keen on Adobe Premier Pro. Myself and Charlie had previously experienced using Adobe Premier Pro at GCSE, however that was a while ago and we were a little rusty to start off with, although we did grasp it again fairly swiftly. I felt our editing in the preliminary task was fairly good however the shots seemed to jump too quickly to one another, and so we needed to improve upon that in the main task.













 
And so in the main task when we had to edit, we made sure that we helped the shots jump from one another in a swift fashion. We did this by allowing plenty of time for a person to stop talking before switching to the next shot, and to make the transitions more smoothly for the main task we added fades and cross dissolves to interlink each shot. 



Here you can see above how the over the shoulder shot of Danny then fades into a closer shot of him over the shoulder.

 




2) Also in the preliminary task we had very little consideration for the characters costumes, we literally agreed for Danny and Ben to wear what ever due to the fact that we did no research into what it took to be a 'drug dealer' or a 'drug addict'. And so in the main task we did plenty more research into our character roles in an attempt to improve on the preliminary task. It's fair to say that we did that in the main task, as Danny went full out in a suit for the 'James Bond' look. And myself and Ben and Charlie dressed as a convincing mafia members.

3) We had a very basic camera to use in the preliminary task, we literally had a handheld camera to use with the aid of a tripod so it was not that hard to work the camera, we all had a go at filming in the preliminary task and we all agreed that it was not hard at all. And so in the main task we had to shoot on a different camera, this camera was much more challenging as it was a lot bigger than the handheld camera we used before. So I suppose you could say that we all developed our camera skills.

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