Creativity-
- The overall success of my preliminary task for the continuity editing exercise was the use of mine and my partner’s creativity, as we led the audience into believing that the girl wanted to desperately tell her mother something very important.
- At this stage we created flash backs to show what the mother thought happened to her daughter for her to be so worried as to telling her(either she was pregnant or she had been attacked) This then created a false answer to the audience as we then revelled at the end that she had just broke the toilet chain.
- We wanted it to be comical but yet wanted it to be much dramatized and so that’s why i added the slow motion reaction at the end to make it funny.
- As it was the first time using all the camera equipment me and my partner was a bit shy to begin with however we got the hand of it very quickly and began doing different shots like 'match on action' where we had the girl opening the door and entering the bathroom.
- This was very successful as we got the transitions for the 'match on action' very tighta and it looked really believable and looked really good!
- Also another match on actin shot we used was when the girl walked done a shot from the front of her and from the back of her and then mixed the two up to create two different shots.
- For post production i feel that the editing was very successful as we made sure all of our tranitions from one shot to the other was spot on as we didnt want any jump cuts etc...
- Another success was that my evalutation was very detailed yet to the point and i think i did really well with it!
Digital Technology
- The least successful for this was at one stage i used hand held as I shot a close up of Laura's eyes as she was crying. As it was my first time doing handheld i was a but shakey and so i decided to add an effect to cover it up so that it didnt look very obvious.
- Personally i feel the least successful stage for this for our continuity exercise was as i added in different effects for example slow motion to go into a flash back a strange loud noise appeared interfering with the sound as the girl says "She's going to kill me" in order to change this we had to take the sound of the girl out and make the volume louder then re-add it back into our piece.
- It worked however it still left a slight muffled sound.
- Least successful for this was that I dont feel personally that i made alot of detailed research as it was my very first task.
Digital Technology-
- I feel that i have improved immensely on a lot of my mistakes during my preliminary task compared to my British Social Realism opening sequence task. This is because i was more comfortable and experienced with the entire camera equipment, and therefore i was able to learn and adapt more.
- This therefore then enabled me to play around more with different shots and shot types for example i used a lot of 'point of view' shots as it went well with my genre/theme.
- All the above links with my creativity as i was able to have more freedom with how and what i wanted my film to be about.
- I improved on the use of Foley sound which we added in through our editing stages. We did this because we needed some sort of rattling key noise's to be happening in order to make Megan’s sister come and open the door.
- Also we needed the sound of keys dropping to the floor as Megan does when she falls through the door. We did so by using a voice recorder/microphone and recorded the sounds our self and added them in and i think it worked extremely well as we learnt from our mistakes in our preliminary task and made sure it didn’t happen again!
- Another thing we improved on was the use of background noises; we totally eliminated most background noises for most shots as we wanted to hear the music instead. However at stages we wanted to hear the music and the noises and so we just turned the adjusted the music on the volume and the same with the noises and we could hear both!
- I improved immesely hear as I made sure I did enough planning and research in order for it to help me in the long run, and indeed I did.
- All my planning and research was very detailed and very helpful as it enabled me to finally decide what i wanted my film to be about and what types of conventions i wanted to use for it!
