Evalutation question 7

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

The transition from the Preliminary task To our final AS Media Coursework has been a learning curb in all aspects. In the progression between Preliminary task and Final Product i have learnt a lot about editing, the way a camera function and how to create abstract shots which will help create a persona in the media text.

The progression between the 2 media tasks has been structured in the way we researched other films such as Layer Cake, Snatch and The Departed. Than we heard another movie which we looked at in great depth which was The GoodFellas which had a very powerful opening scene which gave us the idea of having action. After that we took into account the demographics of our certain opening such as age group which we want to target and the rating which the film will be. The rating of other films in the action and gangster genre were either 12 and over, 15 and over or 18 and over, generally the better films were either 15 or 18 and over. This wasn't really considered in our preliminary task, which shows how we have learnt.

Once we started filming our final product we first tried without a tripod and quickly realised some of our shots were to wobbly, therefore when we did our second day of filming we made sure that the tripod was being used. This made the clarity and the focus of the shots much better and the continuity wasn't a issue.



Editing was also very important, for the preliminary task we used Vegas movie maker which was a bit to simple and we used only a camera that went to only 480p quality. For our rough cut and final video we used IMovie on my macbook which was simple and had all the editing options that we needed. We also used a Nikon D5100 which filmed a 1080HD quality which helped with making a really detailed and clear shot. The editing was an ongoing process over 4 days to make sure everything was done to our satisfaction such as the spelling of all the title was right and the music came in at the right times. The camera gave us many special effects such as this picture which is the final shot in our video:

An example of using IMovie and it's ability to edit shots once they are taken is this shot. We blurred the edges of the shot so that it creates a focus point, being the hostage in the garage. This also helps our audience as they are guided by the use of this type of editing to one specific point on the screen which is the character who is sitting on the chair. Not only the blur around the edges of the shot but the prop we use in this shot is very significant as it creates a sense of mystery especially having it in the first 20 seconds which makes the audience think, maybe try and predict what will happen next.