Looking back from the preliminary task to the task I have just finished I have improved greatly (before the preliminary task I had not as much as used a tripod or a Mac computer.)
I was able to set up a tripod successfully (you may laugh but when I first set out in filming the prelim task I had to get someone else to show me how to set it up.) And I can now handle a camera pretty well. Some of the problems I encountered in filming the prelim was that I didn’t frame a shot well. When showing two people in a conversation I didn’t keep to the 180 degree rule and some bits did not look aesthetically pleasing. Although there were no two people in a conversation I did use the 180 degree rule and the previous faults I had made, made me more aware on framing a shot in the last task and getting it right. Having said this, I still have to more improvements to make for example when the character was speaking on her phone.
I used many more features on the imovie software with the opening sequence than I did in the prelim. For starters I used music! (Things I did are explained on the previous question.) I was much more aware of using the sound toggle for the music to fade away or not be too loud etc… which in the prelim I had not thought to use at all.
I learnt how to use special effects (which I found easier than it sounded) to enhance my film. Having opening credits to mimic a real film I had to find the right text font but I also used a couple of transitions to go from the credits to the film, and then a fade from the film into the title. Doing this project on my own, I had to rely on feedback from other people to get different perspectives and suggestions on improvements I could not perhaps see. I found the task difficult at times but fun and challenging. What’s great about doing a project on your own is sometimes too many people in one group means you can’t try all the different aspects of making the film, and also having to agree on a final idea!
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