My Film

Evaluation task 7

During the preliminary task I learnt almost everything I know about filming, doing this helped me during the filming of the coursework. My camera skills grew over the time that we had between the preliminary task and the filming of the coursework. As this is my first year studying Media i did not know about things like match on action 180 degree rule and shot/reverse shot, this all being taught to me during the preliminary task. During the preliminary task my group learnt a lot about continuity, as we filmed on several different days we had various costumes. We finally overcame this by borrowing similar clothes from other people, but this did slow us down. Having this happen to our group in the preliminary task I made sure that this was not an issue when filming the main coursework. Another main thing that i learnt is that you should always plan. For the preliminary task my group when straight into filming without doing much planning because of this we did alot of unnecessary filming whilst we decided what shots we wanted so for the main coursework i made sure that i made a storyboard with as much detail of the shot as possible.

Evaluation Task 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?


These are the two main peices of equiptment that we used to make our film opening.

To film our opening sequence we used the Samsung SMX-C10, when playing around with the camera checking all of the differnet shots it seemed pretty simple, but when we started filming we came across many different problems.

I edited the film using iMovie which is an apple product which comes with the computer. I decided to use iMovie as many people in my class were having problems with the compatibality with the camera files and AdobePremier. This was the fist time that i have used iMovie, i was very easy quick and simple to use, using iMovie was a good idea as it meant that i could edit the opening sequence in my own time at my own pace.

This is the tripod that we used, as you can see it is broken, this made it very hard to shoot our film as it kept slipping and becoming uneven.