Film Evaluation: Question 7

7. Looking back on your preliminary task, what do you have learned in the progression from it to the full production?

Since our preliminary task, I feel that I've learned a lot more about film film making, along with the editing and making of the film. For example, before we did this, I had never used a tripod dolly to move the camera and thanks to this I was able to make some amazing shots that moved and that really added to the drama of the shot. If you were to compare this to our old preliminary task, the camera stays in one position and it rotates every now and then, however in our actual project I learned how to move both the camera and the tripod in order to look my professional.

Although I had edited short videos in the past, I'd never actually made something that needed to have so much work put into it with some changes every now and then. This is probably why our preliminary task didn't look as professional as our final product because we were quite inexperienced. We didn't really think about the way the lighting looked or how good the camera position should be, but in our final task these were all things we improved on. For example, there's a shot when it looks at the main character sitting at her desk, behind her are some curtains covering a window. When we did this, we made sure a tiny part of the light came through so it wasn't too dark. This just shows how we now think about everything in the mise en scene.

The camera shots used in the preliminary task also weren't really thought out much we tended to just do what we thought would look good or would suit the situation. However in our final project, every shot was really thought out and not only did we think about what would suit the situation, we also wanted the shots to emphasise on what the characters were thinking and feeling and what they meant. For example, we did an extreme close up on Roseanne's face in order to emphasise the fact that what she was reading was dramatic and could affect her life. In our Preliminary task, we used a close up on the phone quite a few times in order to show that time was short and it also had to build tension. The difference between the shots in our preliminary task and our final project is that all the shots in the first one were to create an atmosphere and all the shots in our final one created an atmosphere and meant something, which I feel is what film makers aim for