Evaluation Activity 7 - Looking back at your prelimiary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

When doing the preliminary task I had no idea how to edit the footage properly and looking back at the footage you can clearly see that it is not edited smoothly as it jumps. We didn't use any special effects to make the footage better, we just had what we filmed. It was also the first time I'd heard of 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot. Since doing the preliminary task I have learnt a lot more about shot types such as I now know all the various shot types from extreme close up to high angle shot. We wanted to use a variety of shots and we achieved this by using a close up on the killer blowing out the candle and using a mid low angle of a character on the phone. When filming I wanted to make sure we used 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot. We used a shot/reverse shot when the two characters were on the phone to one another. We used a match on action when our character was writing a card. We used a variety of effects in our film which we would have never been able to use or know how to use without doing the preliminary task. We used effects such as adding music to our film and fade to black and the end of frames. One of the special effects we used was the dripping blood we used in the title.

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