Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Our preliminary task was the first time that all three of us worked together filming and directing everything together and since then we have a come a long way in terms of team work and creativity. We have improved a lot from our preliminary task to our final production and we have used far more creative thinking as well as practical processes to make it as good as we can. Our preliminary task had bad lighting, was filmed on a poor quality camera and had very basic angles and post production techniques incorporated into.
None of these flaws are seen within our final product. The final product contains lighting that suited the situation, not too bright, not too dark and the shots that we gathered that were too dark were cut from the final piece showing that as well as taking more consideration in the filming to begin with, we were also a lot more critical of what shots would be let in to our final product.
The quality of the camera that we used was also far superior as we filmed our preliminary task on a camera phone which wasn’t the best thing to film it on. For our final product we used a DSLR camera because of its advanced quality capture and its ability to use focusing effects. This shows not only more consideration about what we were filming on but also an improvement in the planning of production and organisation skills.
With our final product we were also far more experimental with interesting camera angles because we wanted our sequence to engage the audience and a good way to do this is to use interesting camera angles, we decided that we would try and use as broader range as we could whereas in the preliminary task we used only the most basic angles in order to simply capture the events without putting any real thought into it. We also did a lot more with the shots in terms of post-production techniques using lots of different video effects, transitional effects to create impressions on the audience as well as using titles to incorporate a distinctive visual style. Our final product took advantage of the huge range of features that final cut pro has to offer whilst our preliminary task was quickly put together in windows movie maker.
I think that we also managed to incorporate a much better narrative that hooks the audience and makes them want to view the rest of the film (if there was one). This is probably because our opening sequence is much longer than our preliminary task however it is still a valid progression.
I feel that we have all learnt a great deal about the ways that an opening sequence is made as well as an awful lot about filming and camera angles, Post production techniques that can be used in order to improve the sequence and the shear amount of planning and pre-production that goes into the creation of an opening sequence.
Willheart 