There were a number of things that the group learnt from making the preliminary task such as:
- How to edit footage to give it a continual line of action and using continuity editing. This would be useful since we have been planning to use some continuity editing in our opening and this task gave us good practice in doing so.
- Furthermore, the preliminary task gave us a chance to try out some shots we had been hoping to use such as the canted angle and panning shots.
- We were also able to practice editing our footage in terms of lighting and effects. One particular effect is that we used ghosting by placing the same footage on top of one another, but moving one of them slightly and blurring it giving a ghostly feel.
- This task allowed us to understand the number of shots that are needed to make the footage seem continuous and look aesthetically pleasing.
- Lastly, we were given the chance to practice our acting skills which were in need of refining as some of the group have very little experience of acting.
However, despite these positives, we did come across some problems:
- We had not had large amounts of practice at editing and getting the footage to flow continuously was difficult and some shots were too long and not cut quicker than they should have been.
- In the opening shot, we attempted some effects to make it more interesting to watch. For example we used a couple of zooms, but this proved to be a problem as the border around the screen disappeared and to overcome this we drew our own borders on using black shapes. This did not work however and after finishing we realised that part of the border was still missing in the zooms.
- Sound editing was another problem mainly because it was difficult to mix two different sounds together to add suspense to the footage.
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