Evaluation 8

What targets will you set yourself for G324 next year- when you will make a trailer?






Next year for our media course we shall be making a trailer for a film. This shall involve more make up, people, special effects etc. This is because we have to involve scenes from throughout the film so that the audience will be interested in watching the film. Special effects and sound shall play a huge factor in it because it needs to be interesting quick and attract as many people as possible. Because of this I want to set myself high targets so I push myself to achieve as high grade as I can. I feel I have many targets for G324. These include, making sure when I film the trailer that I use more camera shots and special effects as our G321 was very simple. I also feel for the preliminary task I will add more information to each post to make it more interesting and therefore when we go to film we shall have more background knowledge so that we can produce a better film/trailer next time. IN G324 I want to be able to work as a team better to come together with all of our ideas to make a high quality trailer. During our trailer it shall involve different settings, people, make up , special effects, sound- either diegetic, non diegetic or both and much more! We shall need to focus on camera angles a lot because we need the audience to understand throughout the trailer.




In our 2 minute film the group and I struggled to make sure there were dates when we were all able to meet to film which caused problems. We also then lost footage off of one of the members from the groups phone. This set us back by a day because we had spent all day filming and lost most of it. Next time I would make sure every time we film a part we send it to each other so it is backed up and therefore we wouldn't lose anything. Losing our footage was disappointing at the time but it was a lesson well learnt and it has helped us to learn how we will film next year.


Next year we shall make days free when we can film and leave an extra few available so that if for a reason the original days are then unavailable we have others as an option. We also need to make sure we film the whole film the correct way as in G321 some of our filming was horizontal and others were landscape. This was a problem because it now doesn't flow well. Therefore next time we should film everything from either just one angle or do both angles for each part so that we can then decide afterwards if it is landscape or horizontal. Next time our group will film everything more than once so that we can over lap parts and crop parts but they still flow well. By having them from different angles we will be able to see what part is best.

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.