Looking
back at my preliminary task I feel that I have learnt a lot more than I already
knew about camerawork and editing. I’ve also improved a great deal and learnt
new things.
When we first started the preliminary work I had never used a camera or done much editing of film footage and so I was fairly new to it all. I knew how to film but I wasn’t very good at holding the camera steady and I didn’t know how to zoom out and when I found out how I was too quick. When it came to our main task I had become familiar with the camera we were using and so I knew what I was doing and didn’t need the help of my group when it came to camerawork. My hand was steadier as we now had a tripod and so my hand movements were undetectable. I was also a lot better at zooming in and out at a slow pace because I knew that the camera only required a gentle touch for it to zoom out and didn’t need me to move my finger very much at all to get the frame to zoom out.
I was almost completely new to editing when we started it on our preliminary task. I had only ever edited pictures using ‘Picnik’ this meant that I didn’t know how to cut footage until I was told or add in scene transitions and effects like colour changes or how to add music to the footage.
But when we started doing the editing for our main task I was able to do all of this. This is mostly because when we started editing our footage for our main task we were using an editing programme I was familiar with and had used before, which was ‘Adobe Premier Pro’. However, due to technical issues with ‘Adobe Premier Pro’ we had to go to the CLC and re-edit all of our footage on a different editing programme, this was ‘Pinnacle’. This meant that I had to learn how to do all these thing on a new programme but the fact that my entire group had to do this as well made it easier because we were editing the footage together and so learning and helping each other together.
Because we had learnt how to use rules like the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot we knew how to incorporate them into our film and make it work with the genre and what was happening on screen and how to use them to get the best possible effect out of them. For example, there is a very long action sequence in our film which involves a lot of running. We have used tracking shots to follow this scene and we used match on action to follow the descent of a phone which drops at one point in the film after a phone conversation between the two main characters in which we used the 180 degree rule to follow the conversation.
From the research I did for my preliminary and main task I have learnt a great deal about film. I have learnt how much effort and time goes into producing one from what I have done with my 2 minute films I have learnt what distribution and production companies do and how important they are when it comes to the success of a film. I have learnt the importance of mise en scene in film and what effect it can have if it is done right and also how important sound, editing and lighting can be when trying to create a certain atmosphere for a film.
All of this helped me to make my main task because I was able to apply the knowledge I had gained about film to my main task and use it to benefit my finished product.
Below is a voice over of the above.
https://soundcloud.com/zoe-scarlett-1/voice-over-act-7
When we first started the preliminary work I had never used a camera or done much editing of film footage and so I was fairly new to it all. I knew how to film but I wasn’t very good at holding the camera steady and I didn’t know how to zoom out and when I found out how I was too quick. When it came to our main task I had become familiar with the camera we were using and so I knew what I was doing and didn’t need the help of my group when it came to camerawork. My hand was steadier as we now had a tripod and so my hand movements were undetectable. I was also a lot better at zooming in and out at a slow pace because I knew that the camera only required a gentle touch for it to zoom out and didn’t need me to move my finger very much at all to get the frame to zoom out.
I was almost completely new to editing when we started it on our preliminary task. I had only ever edited pictures using ‘Picnik’ this meant that I didn’t know how to cut footage until I was told or add in scene transitions and effects like colour changes or how to add music to the footage.
But when we started doing the editing for our main task I was able to do all of this. This is mostly because when we started editing our footage for our main task we were using an editing programme I was familiar with and had used before, which was ‘Adobe Premier Pro’. However, due to technical issues with ‘Adobe Premier Pro’ we had to go to the CLC and re-edit all of our footage on a different editing programme, this was ‘Pinnacle’. This meant that I had to learn how to do all these thing on a new programme but the fact that my entire group had to do this as well made it easier because we were editing the footage together and so learning and helping each other together.
Because we had learnt how to use rules like the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot we knew how to incorporate them into our film and make it work with the genre and what was happening on screen and how to use them to get the best possible effect out of them. For example, there is a very long action sequence in our film which involves a lot of running. We have used tracking shots to follow this scene and we used match on action to follow the descent of a phone which drops at one point in the film after a phone conversation between the two main characters in which we used the 180 degree rule to follow the conversation.
From the research I did for my preliminary and main task I have learnt a great deal about film. I have learnt how much effort and time goes into producing one from what I have done with my 2 minute films I have learnt what distribution and production companies do and how important they are when it comes to the success of a film. I have learnt the importance of mise en scene in film and what effect it can have if it is done right and also how important sound, editing and lighting can be when trying to create a certain atmosphere for a film.
All of this helped me to make my main task because I was able to apply the knowledge I had gained about film to my main task and use it to benefit my finished product.
Below is a voice over of the above.
https://soundcloud.com/zoe-scarlett-1/voice-over-act-7
Below
are some print screens from our preliminary task and our main task and how we
used the three rules mentioned above in both of them and how we used tracking
shots.
Preliminary
Task
Tracking
shot
Match
on action
180
degree Rule
Shot/reverse
shot
Main Task
Tracking
shot
Match on action
180
degree rule
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