Evaluation 7

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






In the preliminary task to the final product I learnt lots of new information. I learnt about camera angles and how they are effective, I never knew before this task how much preparation had to go into making a 2 minute film let alone an hour or 2. I learnt that due to the angles we can learn a lot of information without needing speech, for example who lacks or has the power in a scene through a high or low angle shot and how they are feeling, which would be seen through a close up. I have also learnt that depending on characters in a clip then depends on who watches it. I learnt this because in our clip a young couple moved into a new house and therefore it attracts a young audience to watch it because they can relate to it. By learning about stereotypes and target audiences in other films it helped me to decide the genre and what aged people should star in our film because it was important we got the target audience correct.




I have also learnt that having a camera horizontally or landscape can make a huge difference and when filming you should film everything from different angles and more than once. This is because when it came to editing we didn't have enough to crop and over lap and then we had to improvise with what we had which was challenging.


I also learnt about how important titles are throughout the first 2 minutes of the film. This is because if they flow throughout it they are noticed and it makes it effective because we learn about the characters and who helped to make the whole production possible. Whereas, if they were all at the end people are less likely to watch it, whether its on a dvd or online etc. they will just turn off the end because they have watched the whole film now so lose an interest. I learnt this because originally when editing we were going to have the majority of the titles at the end but it didn't look as good whereas when we changed it to have titles throughout it made the characters and production team have more of an importance and it also made it more scary because people would want to watch the titles but then quickly focus back on what would happen to the character Charlotte.