Evaluation activity 7 Looking back at your preliminary task , what do you feel you have learn’t in the progression from it to the full product
Technical/ filming work Regarding the standard of our preliminary work I feel our filming has improved much more. Our use of adobe premier has moved on much more. As we practiced a lot with editing our preliminary as the first shoot we did went wrong when it came to the final editing of our opening sequence our skills had developed
Font’s/ titles Working on the opening sequence I learn’t much more about font’s/ titles and ways in which to edit these with moving image. I also discovered the importance of having appropriate styles of font which will attract the target audience and work in setting the genre of the film
Sound As our preliminary task was a silent movie we did not work with sound or dialogue. The use of sound/ soundtracks was really exciting to work with and revieving our final opening the use of sound can really enhance the atmosphere and narrative of the opening
Special effects Our preliminary did not use any special effects, however neither did our final opening sequence which I think if we had more time I would change and improve the visuals of the opening by working with special effects This I feel would of really pushed the standard of our practical work up from were I was at the stage when the preliminary was filmed and edited
Story/ genre Reflecting back on the structure of our preliminary the story/ narrative of the piece was very simplistic and perhaps unclear to the viewer. In the opening sequence the storyline/ character has been introduced in a much stronger way. The genre of the film and persona of the main character, Steeze is clear to the audience I believe this is because we did a lot more planning and research for our opening that we did for the preliminary task and had not defined what genre of film interested us to re create and explore the conventions of