Evaluation 7

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

Compared to our preliminary task I think we have managed to work better and more successfully as a group, and we have also put a lot more effort into the filming and editing of our media product. My knowledge of the camera equipment and editing software has increased since then as well.

During the preliminary task I didn't know any media terminology, or the camera angles that were available for us to use. We were also limited to using match on action, shot/reverse shot and 180 degree rule, but because of this I learnt what they meant. Since then I feel that I have learnt about more of the different types of angles as we were able to experiment with more than the 3 we were previously restricted to.


One of the main differences between the preliminary task and the main task is that in order to keep track of our progress throughout our preliminary task we used Microsoft PowerPoint. This was very different to the blog as the blog was much more technical and allowed better presentation because we could create separate posts.


During the preliminary task we were introduced to the programme Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0, none of us had ever really used this software before, so it was a chance for us to familiarize ourselves with it and to make mistakes and learn from them so that we wouldn't make them during out main task. This was the same for the cameras we were given.


When creating our preliminary task we didn't put much effort into the editing. We didn't spend much time on it either, this is evident because when watching the clip back you see that it is very jumpy, we didn't know how to make the transition smoother, but after this task we figured out how to smooth out the clip and therefore incorporated it into our main task scene.




Our first shot in the preliminary task included the title. We used the colours red and white. We didn't think about why we used those colours or the links between those colours and the feelings associated with them, whereas in our main task we thought a great deal about what colour we were going to use and why we intended to use it. We also thought more about the font during the main task than we did in the preliminary task.

Another difference between the tasks were that in the preliminary task we didn't change much of the scene. We left it pretty much exactly the same, instead of editing the saturation and brightness like we did with the main task. This was partly because at the time we were creating our scene for the preliminary task we didn't know how to, whereas during the main task we learnt how to use the effects properly and therefore could use them more effectively.

I feel that since the preliminary task I have learnt a lot more about editing and the software best to use in order to do so. Also because we had to edit our scene for the main task twice due to technical difficulties I have gained a lot more experience using these programmes and therefore I feel that I will be able to use these programmes much more comfortably.