Question 7:

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

From the continuity exercise we worked and comparing it to this work I now know that editing is a long process that takes precision and patience to get right. I don't recollect making any mistakes in my continuity exercise not to say that it was perfect but the use of the match on action shot was done quite well and no huge problems were faced in the making of it.

In the main task we probably the same amount of mistakes or more in terms of camera angles as we didn't have to re-film anything.

With our continuity exercise we used the match on action shot which featured the slap of the victim. In our main task we decided to do quite simple but effective shot types such as the canted angle while the villain was walking down to the log. We also accidentally used a slight canted angle in our continuity task because the tripod wasn't set up completely straight. We did a shot/reverse shot in our task which was used quite well and effectively but we didn't use one in our main task due to a lack of dialogue but we did use an over-the-shoulder shot from behind the villain.

In our main task we used a hand-held technique to film all of it giving it a sense of realism which I think we achieved quite well. The camera movements were all free hand in our film so we used a variety of shots such as the tilting shot of the balloon in the sky, which is also a long shot, which was used in our continuity editing also. We followed the 180 degree rule for our continuity exercise which is where an invisible line is created through the middle of the scene and the camera focuses on just one side while filming which was effective in the realism aspect of the film, but we didn't follow this for our main task.

When we were editing we thought it would be good to use the montage editing technique considering it has a home-video feel.Another thing i learnt for the main task is that time wasn't our friend and so we had to plan everything carefully, so that we could meet deadlines although not everything we to plan.