Final opening sequence

This is my groups opening sequence

This displays our opening sequence which is a thriller we named it "The Unknown" this is final piece.

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

   At the beginning of media we did a short one on one conversation as our first taste of knowing how to use the camera's properly and to use them effectively. This gave me a good experience of what is needed for when we finally went on and did our opening sequence. I believe that the preliminary task benefited me. We had to use the editing technique which is shot reverse shot in the conversation also learned about the 180 degree rule which is when you can't go past a certain line. This is because it'll then look like the characters have changed place. We also had to use match on action. Match on action is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shots. When i was first introduced to media i didn't have no idea how key these shots and techniques would be. I thought that the director just goes out a shoots shots without using much detail. However i have no learned that it is important to take care in the shots and have a story plan of every shot which you are going to take with the smallest bit of detail going into the shot.

 This has benefited me a lot because i have learned that filming is not easy because it can take you 10,20 even 30 times to perfect the shot and get the shot that you want to achieve. The preliminary task gave me an idea of how hard it can be trying to perfect the shots, and because it was my first time going out with a DSLR camera i knew that it would be difficult but, with the slight experience i gained by having the advantage of the preliminary task it helped me out, this meant we didn't have to waste filming time on knowing how to set up the camera and to make sure we keep the camera still. This is because if the camera is shaking you will get downgraded marks.  For example in my preliminary task there were some mistakes in there for example; one of the shots i was visible in when i shouldn't have been there. Also we left the camera bag on display which is another mistake and if we did this in our opening sequence coursework we would get downgraded marks.

When it came to the main task we still had to re-shoot a couple of times to make sure we made it as good as possible. This also meant with tampering with the storyline a little bit to try and even make it better. So by the end of our opening sequence we felt satisfied and that we have done as much work as possible to try and get the best possible mark.

I still feel like i can improve with my filming and editing so this is something which i want to improve on when i next go out and do a task.