Evaluation Q.7

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

Preliminary Task:

Looking back at the preliminary task that we did at the beginning, I feel that I have learnt a lot about how to make an opening sequence. Especially with shots like this:

We shot this, then stopped recording and the next shot was this one:

It cut straight to this one which wasn't a continuous shot, however, for our opening sequence, we learnt how to fix that by using a master shot, and not changing the position of the camera in order not to make any more continuity errors like the ones in the preliminary task. 

One other thing that differed from the preliminary task and the opening sequence was that for the task, we didn't have a script, or storyboard, so each shot was completely different and improvised, so it was harder to direct the actors as we had no idea what to record, however with the opening sequence, we had written a script and designed a storyboard in order to come up with a structure which we could follow. 

With the preliminary task, we didn't use any different camera shots or angles, it was just one slow pan from left to right, however for our opening sequence,  we learnt how to differ in the shots that we used to make it look more interesting:

Also looking through the rough edit of Redemption and the Final Cut, I can also see a massive difference and how we changed things in order to get the best grade possible:

After looking at the rough edit, we fixed the sound, we made the titles more interesting, made the shots more compelling to set the scene of the opening sequence, we also added soundtrack to help add to the tension and suspense. 


Overall, I think I have learnt so much from first doing that preliminary task to doing the opening sequence.  At the beginning, I didn't know how to edit footage, put soundtrack on the video, design titles or using different angle shots, but through time, and looking at our opening sequence, I think I have definitely learnt more about it than I did when first starting and it is pretty evident looking at both the preliminary task and the opening sequence. I learnt how to make the footage more interesting, instead of just cutting between scenes, my favourite video transition to use is the cross dissolve in both the titles and the shots itself, it makes the opening sequence more cinematic and more realistic as a movie as opposed to the preliminary task.