Evaluation - 6 and 7. What have you learnt about the technologies from making this product? Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you think you have learnt in progression from it to your final product?

Cameras:
 I have learnt about the way you have to film, for example, if you are doing a pan, you have to start filming further out and then record a few seconds before so that you can cut it and it looks more steady.
 I have learnt about camera shot. I have learnt that the camera angle can effect the way the audience interpret  the character. For example, a high angle would make the character seem weak and vulnerable.
 I have also learnt that lighting is very important when filming a shot. We found quite a few times that one shot was darker than the other and that you have to adjust it slightly a few times until it looks right.
 I also learnt that its good to film the same shot several times from different angles so then when you edit it together you can see what shot would look best.

Editing:
 I found when editing that it is very hard and time consuming to do match on actions but when you have cut it in together, it looks amazing.
 I have also learnt to cut shots and then put them together with other shots.
 I have learned that when you are putting shots together, you have to cut every 3/4 seconds or it will become boring for the audience.

Other skills:
 The sound I learnt to use were how to do a voice over for a film and how to put music onto the film a swell.
 Special effects I used were how to darken and brighten the screen if I hadn't got the right lighting when I filmed it.
 When i was adding titles, I found out that you cant choose any title, certain titles go with certain genres and suit your film specifically.

In my final piece, you can see how we have improved with match on actions. In both Sam reaches for the door handle and it looks a lot smoother in the final film.

 

 Also we use the camera height and where the character is meant to be on the screen. For example in my preliminary task Sam's eyes aren't a 3rd of the way down the screen but in out final film we picked up on it and made sure it was good in every shot.

 

We also learnt our lesson about reflections, in our preliminary task you can see us filming in the reflection of the door, but we learnt from it and in the final film we filmed Sam looking in the mirror and we made it so you couldn't see our reflections.

 

I don't think our time management has improved at all. We rushed the preliminary task because we didn't have much time and our filming was late and we couldn't get some shots because we were pushed for time. Our organisation skills were maybe better because in the preliminary task we were just telling each other what to do but in our final piece we wrote out a whole story board and scripts so that everybody knew what they were doing. I don't think that we had great team ability as we each had different pieces of the film but we would never have all the things we needed and we lacked communication. I think independently both my partner and I both did a lot better as we worked a lot harder by ourselves and could concentrate instead of putting each other off. I think our final piece is effective because it has a clear story line and it fits all the regulations in the genre. However its not as effective because we missed out some shots that we couldn't film and also the sound wasnt great as we used a HD camera and then a normal camera so the quality was different and the sounding didn't match and was very crackly. We tried to fix it with a voice over but I believe it would have been a lot more effective if we had put in more effort into the sound instead of just getting the perfect shot.