Evaluation Question 5

Question 5)

I found when it came to filming and using the camera in this media project, we were a lot more confident with experimenting with different shots than we had been in past projects. When we started using the camera for our first time filming we didn’t really take any adventurous shots but this time we were able to get some quick and snappy short shots which contributed really well to our chase scene at the beginning of our opening movie sequence. 

We also did 3 different sets of filming during our project and each time we were able to improve the shots that we took. I think the fact that we kept reviewing the shots we had took and picked out where we had gone wrong and where we needed to improve helped us get an even better set of shots the next time we went to film. We realised that in past projects and in the first part of filming we did that we tended to cut the shots too early and this made out film look messy and poorly filmed. This was then improved and by the third set of filming we did we were able to make sure each cut and transaction when it came to editing was as neat and quick as possible, giving us a better end result. We also found that a lot of the time we didn’t film enough footage and this resulted in us having poor shots for our running scene and especially our dialogue scene, this is visible in our rough cut as the continuity is extremely poor and we weren’t able to fit to the 180 degree rule. But by the time we went to film again we made sure we filmed more footage than needed rather than not enough at all. This made sure we had some really quick and well thought out shots for our chase scene and in the end our dialogue scene looked interested and filmed well.

When we were using the software to edit we began to get more and more confident with the different techniques we wanted to use and ended up experimenting with different effects and transitions. We found that each time it came to editing we were adding more and more click and snappy shots and were able to make the cuts a lot quicker which helped build the tension and fast pace movement that we wanted to interpret to the audience with our chase scene.

When we were doing out research on looking at the different title effects used in action/spy and spoof films we came to the conclusion that it would look a lot better and more professional to make the titles stand out in bold and large font and the transitions that would be fast paced. We experimented with various different fonts and fades etc and discovered a lot more things that we didn’t know the programme had, and this helped us improve our find product and made the titles and edits look good.