I have recorded this evaluation as a podcast. I uploaded this podcast in prezi.
Looking back at your
preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it
to the product?
As you can see our preliminary task video and our final
video looks very different from each other because throughout the process of
making our final opening, we learnt how an actual professional video should
contain in terms of how editing/transitions are used. Not only that, we needed
to take in account of what angles we included in certain scenes and the quality
of shots used. When referring back to our preliminary video, I realised that
the shots were quite unstable making the whole video look amateur and have poor
quality. For my opening, near the beginning there is a scene of Ethan walking
upstairs where I used my hand to move the camera. This scene looked quite
stable as I was able to keep the camera steady whereas, for the preliminary
task you can see how unstable the video was even if it was supposed to be kept
in one angle without having to move the camera. This shows how I was able to
focus on the small factors in the video to make it look professional.
We also, edited or shot some scenes at certain times to
create atmosphere in the scene. For example, for the nightmare scene we had to
shoot at a specific time to make the scene look dark but not too dark
therefore, giving the scene an eerie atmosphere and creating tension which
entertained the audience. However, in our preliminary task we didn’t focus on
the lighting and this was one of the main factors which made the video look horrible
as the plot was quite serious but the lighting doesn’t relate with the
atmosphere making it look messy. Besides that, the actors weren’t acting
properly because they were smiling in some scenes, especially when they were
supposed to be serious making the video look messy.Adding onto that, this time
around we made sure to focus on the costumes as well because it could affect
the way, the video is presented. For instance, the costume has to represent the
character’s personality as this technique is used in main-stream movies to show
what the personality of the character is like.
Not forgetting on the transitions, how the preliminary video’s
transitions looked more like a slide show rather than a movie’s transitions as
main-stream movies rarely put those kinds of transitions because it doesn’t
look appropriate to have those kinds of transitions in a movie. By taking this
into account, we have prevented using those kinds of transitions as we are
aware how the video won’t looks as good as the main-stream movies; as our main
target is to make the movie look like a main-stream movie.
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