Evaluation: 7

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

The brief we were working to for our preliminary task was to create a short continuity task that included the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot-reverse-shot. In this task we filmed and edited scenes of a character walking down a corridor, opening the door, walking in and sitting down opposite another character, a short conversation and finally walking out again.

The brief for our main task was to make titles and the opening of a new fiction film that lasts a maximum of 2 minutes.

The skills we have learnt in our prelim exercise we have used in our 2 minute film: We used match on action in our prelim exercise for when Kelsey opened the door and then walked through, we also used it in our 2 minute film as shown, as i am holding the phone and then put it to my ear.

We also used shot-reverse-shot in our preliminary exercise so we also used this in our film, as in our first exercise we used over the shoulder shots when Kelsey and Amy were talking to each other. We then used these shots in scenes in our film to show when conversations and their facial reactions are important such as when Kelsey and I are worried about Amy. This scene also uses the 180 degree rule as the camera didn't go over the line; this makes sure the scene looks right.

Improvements: We have got better at editing our film, as in the preliminary exercise we couldn't make the match on action flow properly as there were a few jump cuts when the action didn't match correctly. But then in our film we managed to edit it smoothly so the action flowed and we used match on action.

Other methods: We used a split screen when we edited our film so that we used something different and the phone conversation looked like it flowed. We changed the way Kelsey was looking so that it looked like a proper phone conversation and the girls seemed like they were looking/talking to each other.