Evaluation Q7

Looking back at the preliminary task it is easy to see that I have come forward and improved my knowledge at the production, filming and editing of film considerably. Even to the point of story-boarding and looking at what shots go well with each other, I have discovered that filming is much more complex than just taking a camera out and pressing record. You have to plan your time and everything you do within the film otherwise nothing will come together. We had a much longer time to plan, shoot and edit our final film, so naturally it was going to improve, but if we had not done our preliminary sequence to find out what could go wrong and how to solve it, I don't think we would have been so well equipped making the final draft. For our preliminary sequence we did have a set of storyboards but these were not as well laid out our final piece. We also had more time to look for props, costumes and locations for the final piece whereas in our preliminary sequence we all were in our school clothes, and just searched for a free room around school. The editing was made easier in the final draft, as we had a long time to decide what we wanted to cut out and sort out jump cuts, we even had the chance to re-shoot some of our final sequence as we thought that we could make it better. We also benefited from being able to use GarageBand to put a non-diegetic sound into our final draft. To summarize I think that we have been able to improve our standard of filming and editing dramatically over the time we have been producing this film and I have learned the key apsects of Planning, Shooting and Editing a film.