Evaluation question 7

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

Differences
Narrative
Compared to our preliminary task, the difference in narrative was significant. The narrative of our preliminary task was very dull, and simple. We had minimal planning for it, and did not necessarily have an idea of where it could lead to, or similarly, lead from. However, in our opening sequence, the narrative of our piece was extremely well planned. We had planned where our film was going to lead after the opening, as well as a rough story throughout our opening.

Costumes
Our main task was well planned and produced in terms of costumes. We planned for our actor to wear exactly what we asked, as we wanted to relate it to mise-en scene, representation as well as verisimilitude. In our preliminary task, we did not think about costumes, and did not see them of importance. When it came to our main task, and after investigating into the effect of costumes in not only our chosen genre, but all films, we realized how much importance costumes had on the impact of the film, as well as the large connotations they omitted.

Actors
Compared to our preliminary task, our main task was well thought out in terms of characters. We knew the exact type of actor we wanted to act in our piece, and why. We held auditions for the actor of our main character in order to gain a wide variety of choice for our main task. Our preliminary task did not have such effort put into the actors. We had friends who were free at the time to act in our piece, as the actor's characteristics were not of importance the the narrative or the impact of the film.

Improvements since our preliminary task
A significant improvement we made since filming our preliminary task was our filming techniques. Our match-on-action shot has improved largely. We used this shot when our character was entering and exiting the car. We also experimented with different shots, such as a tracking shot. This ended up effective, as we used a dolly to complete this shot successfully.

I personally feel much more comfortable using the equipment, as well as comfortable with experimenting with new pieces of equipment, such as the dolly and tripod. This is because i have used them several times since filming our preliminary task, and i am now largely familiar with how they work, and the best techniques to get a finer piece filmed using these pieces of filming equipment.

I believe our final piece is successful. This is firstly because it is a professional looking opening. It is effective in highlighting the lifestyle of our main character, and successfully hooks in the audience to further view the film. In order to improve, we could have been more organized in filming and editing, as well as filming our shots several times to ensure our final piece was as high a standard as it can possibly be.