Thursday, 30 April 2009

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

7) Since my preliminary task I've learnt a great deal from IMovie. IMovies offer countless amounts of different functions to guide you on your way to a professional production. When editing my preliminary task I had minimal knowledge on how to use the many functions. But when it came to putting the final pieces together on my production there was all kinds of different effects used. For example fade transitions, sound effects, slowing down clips, and titles.

When producing my preliminary task, I again had little knowledge about how conventions within a film could determine what genre your film is. But when it came to filming my final media production I had gained knowledge from my preliminary experience that objects within the mise-en-scene immediately get the genre of the film over to the audience. For example the shot of the gun in my final production tells the audience that the film is going to be action based.

Planning was also something that I had learned from the preliminary task. This is because with the preliminary task I had to plan every shot. Whereas when it came to my final media production, not only did i have to plan every shot but I had to plan costume, props, locations, actors, shot type and more. Again like before all of these things can determine a film's genre all within the opening sequence.

Feedback I received from audiences was also important for the creation of my final media production because when producing a film you are not producing it for yourself you are producing it for other people. So other opinions are very important because you can go back and make these adjustments and make sure the film fits the genre.

1 comment:

  1. Kieran and Josh's preliminary task was lost when the new system was installed in January. This response does explain improvement but without the actual task it is difficult to prove how large the improvement actually was.

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