Q1- What I have learnt during the making of my preliminary task

What I learnt from this task

All throughout the making of production, I learnt a range of new technology skills when working with the camera as well as in front of it.
Some skills I have gained from working towards this task are:

• How to use the DSLR camera.
• Finding out all the different features of the camera.
• Learning how to edit the film.
• Using Adobe Premiere Pro CC to create my film.
• Using different effects on my film.
• Adding in music.

When creating the film, I found using the DSLR quite difficult first time around, this is when my skills started to improve when I practised more. I learnt how to attach and detach the camera from the tripod which I found very useful as some shots the camera needed to be still and focused and others, the camera could be used more for the movement of the shots. After we finished the filming side of then project, we then started to edit the production on Adobe Premiere Pro CC, adding in effects, contrast, music and titles. This practise has helped me learn all different skills when working with this editing programme. I feel I have learnt a great deal of the filming and editing side of making an production which will be a great relief when making projects in the future.

How I managed my time

I believe within my group, we managed our time effectively resulting in us not rushing when the task was due in on the 16th of October. We was organised while booking out an area to produce our film and really got on with the task as we only had an hour to film. This then resulted in us having the time to spend all our effort on editing the film making it the best of all our ability.

Group Work

As this was a group project, we was all expected to pull our weight within working on our own tasks set. As well as having an individual duty within the production, we all worked as a team making the whole experience easier for everyone in the group, meaning if another team member had a problem with their task set e.g. working with the camera or how to use effects on a certain part of the film yet someone else in the group did, we felt it would be necessary to help our group member. This is working together to make our ability the best it can be.

Storyboarding

Before producing the film, we had to create a storyboard on how the film was going to be set out. Explaining the roles each group member had to enrol. After we drew the storyboard showing different pictures of what the scenes will look like including effects, lighting and acting by the two characters, we posted this onto our blog explaining the different scenes and we will video these to get the best affect. This was a great idea to do before producing our film as we knew exactly how we will film different bits of the scenes resulting in the amount of time we needed for filming reducing.

Issues around continuity

As we shot the whole of the production within the same day, we didn't have the problem of costumes/hairstyles/make-up being changed throughout the film, which we found very useful as we didn't have any problems of the film not flowing correctly within the look of the production. Although, we did find that we didn't shoot one of the characters walking away from the situation so we had to improvise and flip two of the scenes so the film could end in a correct manner. We also found a couple of the scenes jumped when flowing into a different scene, we didn't find out what the best way of correcting this was, meaning there's room for improvement when learning new tricks of Premiere Pro.