Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Within my preliminary task I began to edit on programs such as Final cut pro and adobe after effects, this allowed me to have experience when creating my Thriller opening, this also allowed me to feel comfortable to edit sounds and camera angles together within these programs, since the preliminary task I have been able to create a more effective use of editing in order to make credits and add special effects.

I have improved a lot, as even our costumes were wrong within the preliminary task. for example on our first take we realized that some of the character's clothing and hair styles changed within the scenes, we used some of the shots that we used within our preliminary task, however I think that we used the angles more effectively, for example using the P-O-V shot within the preliminary task was done very shaky as we used a handheld camera which wasn't good quality, in our Thriller opening we decided to use a HD camera in order to have good quality as well as a tripod to keep the pod shot still.

We also animated the credits and added extra objects and linked this to the storyline rather than the credits being blank and just scrolling down like it does on the preliminary task. We had music in our preliminary task, however the music didn't really suit the storyline and wasn't really in synch. In our main task I think that we used music quite effectively as we placed it to cause a dramatic effect and to make the scene seem more tense. We made sure to keep using the 180 rule in which we learnt from our preliminary task this allows the editing to go smoother.

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These were all things that we did wrong in our preliminary task and we took account of these and used it to make our thriller opening better.