Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Preliminary task




What we did:

This video shows what we have created for the preliminary task at the beginning of the course. We use things like match on action and the 180 degree rule, furthermore we edited this video using final cut express to make it seem smoother and much more realistic.

Narrative:

The story is about an individual (Enid) attending a job interview but has the wrong attitude and is far from prepared. As she enters the interview it all seems fine until she starts talking about how she only cares about the money and doesn't really have any interest in the job, she soon faces the consequences of her attitude and faces being rejected.

Evaluation:

The things that went well in our preliminary task was the acting, the match on action and the camera work as well as the editing. The things that we could have done better were to adjust the lighting in the first scene to make it brighter so it makes it clearer. One of the things I would change is to try a make the video a bit longer and to add a few more transitional effects.  Think that we followed the brief very well by following all the rules such as the 180-degree rule and we included the match on action scene, which was required, we also included the shot-reverse- shot, which was also required and was mentioned. During this task I developed my editing skills on final cut express and also learnt about how to handle the camera and how to use the features on it.     


Friday, 12 October 2012

Introduction to the Brief

Today we have been introduced to our coursework task and overall i think it will be an exciting but long project. Our task is to create a title and opening of a new film, to last a maximum of two minutes. I feel this will be a tough but enjoyable project due to the fact that we will get to use a variety of technology, it will also be tough because we will have to learn how to use all the softwares, equipment and programmes.