Our brief for our prelim task was to film a continuity sequence using a range of techniques such as match-on-action, 180 degree and 30 degree rule. It had to involve one person entering a room, meeting another person, exchanging something with that person and then leaving again.
Through doing our prelim task we learnt that filming always take longer and more shots than you think it is going to take. We also got to relearn the basics of Adobe Premier Pro which we had used, but not for quite a while. I also learnt that you need to check all of the set that will be in shot, before doing each shot as in our prelim for example one of our bags and folders where in the background of a shot.
The brief for our final product was to create and opening sequence to a film lasting 2 minutes with titles running throughout.
In the progression from prelim to full product I personally learnt a lot about organisation and how important it is. If you do not get every little last detail organised then what ever you have missed, as a general rule, tends to go wrong on your shoot. Also I learnt how useful it became when editing to have all the shots written down with which one was the best shot, time codes or if it needed re-shooting.
In terms of planning, what I didn’t realise had to be done, which I was doing toward the end of the process, was that if we decided to change something within the sequence, we would have to retain a copy of the old plans, but also make news plans with the adjustment amended or added to them.
We knew from our prelim how important getting master shots was, and this showed itself when we were editing our final product as sometimes we needed a little bit more footage from a different point of view just to achieve continuity and with a master shot, you can just add back in as much of the shot as you need in order to achieve what you are trying to do.
One thing we learnt that worked in our prelim was having some figure or important information in the plot that is unknown or unclear. In other words it is good (especially for short sequences) that there is some enigma that the audience is trying to work out as it keeps them fully focused on your film as they do not want to miss the part that they want to know. In our audience feedback from our screening of our films, we found that almost all of our audience was able to identify Nico's character as 'n00b' and also could clearly identify that Robbie's character was the leader of the group. The main critisism we got was that even thought the audience are not meant to know what happened to the leader hacker or who was knocking on 'n00b's door, they wanted to have an idea of who and what might have happened. While this was a critisism from some, this was a praise from others, so I guess if we were to redo the project we would balance the enigma a bit better with some hints as to what might happen.
I believe that we worked extremely well as a team. In the prelim we were in different groups, but in my opinion, in my group, we were not all working to our strengths, I think if we had organised our prelim more thoroughly, then we would have each been working on our strengths, but we didn’t. When it came to our final product, our group all had different strengths which worked really well in order to achieve all the different aspects we needed. Even when there was something none of us were strong on or could do at all, one of us would learn and practise then teach the others, for example, so we could all work on something, or there were other times where for example a member of our group learnt how to make the graphics, so she did the majority of that whilst myself and the other member of our group carried on with everything else that needed doing.
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