Analysis of different aspects in our opening 2 minutes of the film EVALUATION 7

Evaluation activity 7: Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

From the premliminary tasks that I did back at the begining of the year I have improved greatly between the premliminary task and then the full product, my camera work and editing skills have improved alot. Just simply looking at the task and the final product you can clearly see that the swiftness between the scenes is much better. Another thing is when it came to cutting the scenes that improved greatly because at the ending of the one that I did in the Hall there was a part that we didnt need in the short clip and we didnt cut it out, but now looking at our final film we made all the scenes seamless and have no parts in them that are irelevant, so it flows nicely.
Another thing that you can see has improved between the two is that the variation and creatiity of the camera angles.The camera is also alot more steady.
In the final product that we made, the range of shots we used was much larger than the range of ones that we did in the two premliminary tasks. We used the 180 degree rule, shot reverse, panning, high/low and establishing shots.
Through out the progession to the full production we learnt and realised ourselves as a group that we did need to use a better camera to the one that we had been using before. With a better camera our film would appeal to the audience more and it would also be able to cope with the action shots that we had going on in our film.