Evaluation Question 7 - Matthew

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

Our preliminary task required us to show continuity throughout the video. This included us following the 180° rule, which means that the camera must not cross the line otherwise it will make the film confusing to the audience as the positioning of the characters will be reversed without explanation, shot-reverse-shot, which is typically used during conversations between characters and match on action shots to show movement at different angles and in different shots.

We showed continuity in our preliminary by using a match on action when we showed the door being opened. We used two shots of the actor grabbing the door handle and then him opening the door we did this to show who is opening the door and a close up of the door handle. We later used this in our film when the murderer is walking down the field when we cut back to Les-Strade and then we pick up from the murderers last steps.

The 180° rule was very helpful as it allowed us to keep continuity in our film. A key example of when we used this rule was during the interviews when we would cut back and forth from Les-Strade, Shackleton and Marshall. This helps the audience to not get confused by the positioning of the characters.

We used Adobe Premier Pro to edit our film the same programme we used to  edit our preliminary task, we used the same programme as we were all familiarised with how it worked and the features that the programme had such as the ability to edit sound and image

s separately.