Evaluation Of My Preliminary
Production Task
When I begun filming and editing my preliminary production i didn’t have any knowledge about the broad amount of terms / techniques used when filming to make it look most professional. However, now I’ve learnt about some filming and editing techniques I can put them to use which will help me achieve the best outcome for my coursework.
I think that learning how film and edit the match on action and then adding it to my production was a good way to experiment with the new techniques there are available to use; another aspect of my preliminary production which went well was the transition from Rizwana walking from the bottom of the hill to the media room because the fade from Rizwana walking outside up the drive to the stairs on the inside looked effective because I used the dissolve fade which slowly changes a opacity transition effect from one scene to another.
The things that went wrong were the background noise from other students which and cars driving past the bottom of the school drive which could have been prevented by using good headphones to edit my production which would help me recognise when the external sounds most affect my production also, I could have waited for oncoming traffic to pass by and set the settings to wind reduction which helps to stop the effects of the wind on my production , another way I could have improved could have been using the plastic bag technique which reduces the movement of the camera therefore stabilising the shot giving it a much smoother outcome.
Another way I could have improved my filming is by asking students to move out of the outdoor/indoor shots whilst we were filming within close proximity of them. Additionally the way filmed with the handheld camera could have been practised a few more times prior to the outdoor filming of Rizwana on the phone which would have made my filming look much more professional.
The most productive aspects of working in a group are that you can easily see how to use the camera because people who have done Media Studies at GCSE level have a much higher understanding of camera techniques/ editing techniques which you wouldn’t know without being shown how to do so in person or on video tutorial, also working in a group is useful because it means you can have more than one person being filmed at one time. Another reason why working in a team group is a huge advantage is that if your just working in pairs then it takes much longer to carry/set up camera equipment in the area which you’re going to be filming in.
The preliminary production is a very useful way to have hands on experience with a camera and the equipment that comes with it for example , the tripod which is very useful a steady and effective shot such as the establishing shot , which is the first shot to be filmed, also the panning shot which slowly and smoothly pans round to follow someone/ something, which we did when we filmed Rizwana walking up the school drive to show a greater understanding of the skills we had learnt whilst filming our preliminary production.
