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?

Before even starting the task, i knew it was going to be hard for me as i had no filming or acting experience. I learnt about camera techniques, shots and angles. This was key for me as i was the camera man. I learnt about rules of filming such as the 180 degree rule which is generally never broken unless you want to confuse and deceive your audience. I have learnt how to appeal to the specific audience by carrying out surveys i would have never done.

Looking back on our preliminary task, me and our group as a whole have learnt a great deal in terms of editing, rules and filming. I feel that the knowledge and know how i have gained has helped me in the horror opening sequence task and helped us as a group to create a more complex product.

For the filming of the horror movie, we used a program called adobe premiere, we all had used this before as this is the schools staple editing software. So we generally knew what transitions were on offer to use, so not much was learnt. But as our film was so dark, it was hard to see so, our teacher taught us how to use colour contrast, this is where you can control the brightness or darkness of the film without tampering or affecting the overall quality of the film. We wanted to create a natural had held look to our film and Adobe did that for us.

To add to the media task, we had to file our progress and independent research on a website called blogger, this was knew to me because the only social network i bother with is Twitter, so i needed to get used to working it and blogging regularly. This once you got the hang of it, was an easy site to understand and use affectively.