3 Targets

1. Use more detail about technology in my explanations, and become more familiar with the technology used and the technological terms.
2.Reach deadlines for all work set
3. Become more familiar with Ideology

Evaluation

During the course of working on our preliminary task I have learned and developed several skills surrounding continuity editing.Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in film and television, making shots seem as if they run smoothly with no breaks or obvious gaps - it should be flawless in order to create the effect that it intends. The idea of continuity editing is to smooth over discontinuity of the editing process and provide a logical coherence between shots. The key rules of continuity editing include "Match on Action" , meaning that the subject is shown in the same stage of its movement as was left from cutting from the first shot.
Here is an example of a match on action shot in our clip:

Here you can see that the movement between his fist moving into the air and it being in the air is continual in our shot.
I also learned many skills about filming organisation. At the start of the course and our preliminary task I was extremely unorganised and absent for a few lessons meaning being left to catch up with the group. I soon caught up and got involved with filming, and I have now learnt that organisation and being present for all lessons is necessary. Also, our group learnt to be more organised with keeping things such as scripts safe, as ours went missing and meant that we had to spent far longer organising dialogue during filming than we intended.
After filming, we had to upload our footage from the DV camera to Premiere. We did this by plugging our camera into the computer and importing our footage into premiere.

Post-Production

Th editing process of the priliminary task was fairly complicated to start with, as none of us were familiar with the software that we had to use. However, once we got the hang of it it became fairly simple, more so for alex who seemed to find the editing easiest. I found the software quite confusing to use. We had to cut out the white fade in parts that our camera automatically included in our footage, and we did this quite successfully meaning we were left with a good example of continuity editing. Here is our finished task:

Production

In general, the filming process was quite succesful, however we did have to deal with a few glitches. Firstly, our camera had some sort of automatic fade-in setting, meaning that when we started filming a new clip there was a bright white fade in that overlayed our filming, in some cases interfering with key points and dialogue. As we could not figure out how to disable this setting, we had to do a run-in, leaving the white to fade before we started filming. This could then be cut out during the editing process. We encountered a few difficulties due to our lack of script, meaning almost all of the dialogue was changed in order to fit with our location and ensure that the cutaways were relevant. We did, however, manage to develop a fairly good conversation that was relevant to our cutaways and cut-ins.

Pre-Production Tasks

In order to start filming our preliminary task we had to carry out several pre-production tasts to ensure that filming was both safe and fully prepared for. Firstly, we completed a risk assessment in order to identify possible risks and fatalilities associated with the equipment and areas we would use for filming. It was also necessary for us to create a storyboard to outline the ideas that would be used in our clip and to demonstrate the area that we would be using. The storyboard offered a sense of organisation and made the filming process much easier. We also developed a script, meaning that dialogue could be remembered much more easily and we would not forget our lines. Unfortunately, this script became lost during the preperation process, but we managed to continue filming with only slight complications due to it taking much longer than it would have if we had a script. Alex and I had to be cast as the characters as Tom claimed that he was hungover and therefore it was necessary for him to do the camera-work.