Evaluation Question 7

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

 

 

Going back to November when I did my preliminary task and comparing it to my title sequence, I have realised that I have improved on many features including many continuity errors which were clearly present in my preliminary task including the 180 degree rule and making my action matches better and smoother.

The preliminary task had several problems one of the main factors being that the continuity of my piece was not perfect and there was several errors with this and also that I broke the 180 degree rule and my action matches were right leading to the door to not open smoothly but instead jumped quite a bit.

Now comparing this video with my title sequence which we have been working on since then, I can clearly see that I have improved with the continuity of my shots and there seems to be no problems with my action matches and I believe that they are a lot smoother and are not jumpy. I also followed the 180-degree rule with my media product and my continuity seems to be a lot better than what it was during my preliminary task.   

 

1st Action Match



2nd Action Match



The improvement in the action match can especially be seen in my final piece compared to my earlier attempt at it during my preliminary task. In my final piece there is a total of two action match shots, the first where she leaves her bedroom to go into the hall and the second is when she goes from the hall into the bathroom. These both were shot from different sides of the doors and I believe that both the shots used to compose each one was edited smoothly together, where as the one which I did in my preliminary task was off by about a second which is quite easily seen.

 

 

The improvement in the 180-degree rule has massively improved from what it was during my preliminary task as during that I managed to break this rule. However, during my final piece I managed to keep the 180-degree rule especially during the two different shots of my main protagonist walking in the bathroom.

As well as improving on the continuity from the progression of the preliminary task to my final piece I had also improved on other factors of my editing like how to change and add effects onto a shot which was especially used for one of the shots which was particularly grainy and not to an acquired quality which I wanted, I also was able to improve on how I put in the titles for my final piece as before I was unsure for how to put text on top of the shot but when doing my final piece I managed to work it out and used this for the title of my film which was shown on the cheek of the dead body.