Evaluation 7

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

My preliminary exercise was a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task had to include 180-degree rule line, match on action and shot/reverse/shot. I think taking part in this task beforehand allowed us to understand continuity rules that we had to stick to in our two minute clip to ensure it was succesfully made. Match on action was certainly an important one as our 2 minute opening scene include lots of small shot, of Lucy laid in the woods and running so we had to ensure we filmed these so that they were of the same movement and she was in the same position. We got better at editing as the preliminary exercise only included simple and basic cuts, but to make our main task of a higher quality so it could achieve a good grade we had to use transitions like crossfades, include no diegetic music to create and atmosphere and add n extra sound like the recording for the radio clip. These were a lot harder to do using Premiere Pro, but it helped having knew the basics from editing our preliminary task, so our pre-existing knowledge speeded up the long and diffiult editing process for our 2 minute opening clip. We used different methods through the use of including titles and credits and non diegetic music, which we had not previously done in the preliminary task or practise editing, these didnt take that long and through knowing how to use the basics on Premiere Pro the task became very easy, as the software was quite repetetive an simple to use so this extrememly helped.