Evaluation Question 7

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

Looking back at my preliminary task which we had constructed in the beginning of this school year, in comparison to our final media product, Unrequited Love, i can see a fairly high development in our team. Not only have we improved our team working skills, but also in our technical skills.

The main technical advancement has been us being able to use a Cannon XF300 during the construction process of our final media product. The Cannon XF300 had many different functions, like the depth in field, which all needed to be learnt in order to film our final products to it's best standard. For our preliminary task however we had used a handheld camera, who's main function was just the zoom feature.

I also have learnt organisations skills, which were needed in many occasions. For example, I had to make sure that the actress would be available to ilm on the day we wanted, make sure she is able to get to the location without any problems or getting lost. Also as a group we had to make sure that the script, storyboard, screenplay and shot list were all ready ad finished before the filming day as during our preliminary task all this had been a problem. Our actors back then all had different time tables so it became difficult to find the perfect timing to actually start filming. Further on we had no shot list or completed story board which made the whole process even longer as we didn't know which shots to record and not.

Additionally, I believe we as a group also grew together very well as at the beginning we hardly knew each other, let alone strengths and weaknesses. However over this year we have learnt a lot about one another and made sure that we used those strengths in our final product, like for example, a team member of mine is a part-time rapper and also lyricist. So we had him make us a track related to the film which we could use in our opening scene.

Also here has been a lot more creative input by us, which worked very well for our opening scene like the paintbrush shot, were she paints on the screen. Another one would be where she knocks over her pot of brushes. Such little shots have worked very well and also during the editing process were put together very intelligently.

Another change in me now is that i now use a lot more media terminology and also understand what it means. At the beginning of the year when we were thought what mise-en-scene is, i didn't really understand it and then we had to use it in our preliminary task as well. However during the final media production i knew what everything meant and was which has helped me a lot.