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Evaluation - Question 4

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Evaluation -Question 5

I did use a website called Gliffy to present this question but the embedding code did not allow me to change the size of the presentation so it was too big for the blog. So instead I have screenshot the question and used it as an image.

Evaluation - Question 6

I noticed that I had accidently uploaded my video onto YouTube as 'Question 3', it is actually answering Question 6 of the evaluation though, got mixed up, oops!

Evaluation - Question 7

Evaluation - Question 7

In the video above, it shows some of the problems that we came across when we produced our Preliminary Task. Most of these issues, we managed to solve and were sorted for our final film.

1 - The first photo shown in the video shows Amy getting up and walking off to the corner. If we had added a tracking shot of her going to the corner and then walking out of the room, then our continuity would have been better. However, in the following shot, the corner she is seen walking into is empty and Amy is not there. In our final film, we tried to make sure all of our shots we continuos, but we still had problems with this even in our final film. We tried to make a list of all the shots we wanted to use and when to use them but as we added better parts in as we went along, the list got confused and we ended up forgetting a few important shots that would make the film completely continuos.
2 - This shot shows how Amy is not in the position that the audience would expect her to be and one of the main examples of our lack in continuity.
3 - This photo is another example of an issue with continuity, In this shot I am about to pull a chair out and sit down, which the audience can't really see anyway as the shot is too high but in the next shot I am suddenly sitting down, this is another way in how we could have improved our final film.
4 - This is the shot which shows me sitting down, even though the audience don't see it happen.
5 - We also found that lighting was sometimes an issue with our Preliminary Task, on one side of the room it was very bright and on the other very dark; which made the final product look like it had been filmed at different times in the day. In our final film, we managed to film the whole of the house scene within the space of about an hour, so the lighting stayed relatively the same, apart from the ending when we closed the curtains and drain the light, to show that the body of the woman had been left there until night time.
6 - Also, from all the shots in the video above, they all use mid shots, so this was a disadvantage as we could have varied the types of shots a bit, we mainly used tracking shots (although quite shaky) and sometimes POV shots.


Evaluation - Question 7

In this video, I have shown photos of what we changed in our final film compared to our Preliminary Task.
1 - The first photo shows a shot that we didn't even use in our Preliminary Task, a high angle shot, we used this to show the victims vulnerability. We tried to vary the shots more and used others such as POV, low angle shots, tracking shots, establishing shots, close up etc.
2 - Also, we tried to change the lighting to set the mood rather than it changing randomly like it did in our Preliminary. Also, the audience can see when the light changes as they witness the killer close the curtains. This was far better than our preliminary as it stayed pretty much the same sort of lighting throughout until the end.
3 - This third photo shows one of the low angle shots we used and also how we drained the light and colour from this short scene. This links to the idea of changing the lighting to represent the mood and atmosphere.
4 - In this shot, we used a tracking shot to see the killer move from the sofa, across the room to the double doors. In our last tracking shot that we used in our preliminary; it was very shaky and quite stiff to move the tripod. But in this shot we used a better tripod so that we could get a much smoother shot and it wasn't as blurry as the preliminary tracking shot.
5 - This is another tracking shot that we used.

Overall, we learnt a lot from the preliminary task, not only from the point of view of filming, but in the editing too. Instead of using iMovie, we used Final Cut Express, which was a much more advanced program and allowed us to make the changes we wanted to certain shots and sounds. I also feel that the preliminary task did not have much planning to it and it was very much improvised. Hence, why the shots were pretty much the same throughout. Whereas our final film had a lot of planning going into it to make sure we got a range of camera shots and the right sounds were used.

Our Final Film