Tom Verco Question 7

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

I fell that i have learnt a lot from the preliminary task to now i have learnt how to use a camera properly also how to edit and different ways of incorporating sound into your piece. 

i have leant all the camera techniques from White Balance to the different shots and angles and how to get them right. 

When we started our prelim we didn't really know what the techniques for the camera was until we looked back at the footage and saw things differently to when we were filming. For example the white balance in one shot wasn't right and it made that scene look blue and from that moment on that was something that we made sure we got right.

The sound quality from our prelim task to our final product is so much better i think this is because we had a better understanding on how to use the microphone properly and how to pick up the best sound. on top of this we have also found so much better sound effects and background music to incorporate within our product. The sound made a massive difference as it build more tension and suspense as the non-diegetic sound was much better.

Our editing skills improved so much between the two and this is clearly shown when you watch the two videos. This is mainly down to the fact that for our prelim it was our first time using the editing software so we were not that familiar with it. So when it came to editing the main product we all knew what we were doing and we got the editing done a lot quicker, this made time for us to create a title sequence that with research we found out plays a big part within a thriller opening. This made our final product look that bit more professional.

Overall i think that our editing skills and film skills have improved so much from the start, and we now have a much wider understanding of all the techniques of filming and editing.