Evaluation: Question 7

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

Looking back at the preliminary task, I've definitely noticed a progression in my capabilities throughout all technical areas, especially my work with camera, as I am now more confident with shot types and framing them more artistically to convey a more legitimate approach to film making. I can now also operate the iMovie software fluently, incorporating a wider range of editing techniques than I could with the preliminary task. I also found the research stage of this unit to be a lot more in-depth this time, with our analysis of a wide range of film openings being very time consuming but at the same time providing helpful guidelines and conventions that we could transfer onto our opening. As a group, we have similarly improved our skills when it comes to working with each other, using the equipment with precision and taking a care in our attention to detail.

In terms of the success criteria of our opening sequence, I believe we have accomplished our goal in making the opening 2 minutes of a film, by quickly establishing the genre, mood and tone. We also wanted to make our opening more distinctive and provide contextual information in a more stylised way by including a non-diegetic voice over.

Below is the final cuts of 'Remorse' and 'The Conspiracy' for comparison: