Evaluation 7 -

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

 



From the beginning of the year where we created our preliminary task to now, after creating our final product, our group ha gone through many changes in terms of technical ability of making films. To show this, I have uploaded both our preliminary task and our final product:

 

 

Camera shots / editing
In terms of camera shots editing, you can see a huge improvement. Although, before in our preliminary task, we were using good shots, that editing was very slow and shots were being held for far too long. A clear improvement is visible from this to our final draft of our opening where our camera shots are just as good, however the editing I much more continuous and clear / precise. Similarly, you can see I our final daft that we start to use filters to show new camera styles (for example the shot that resembles CCTV), this shows our improvement s this is something we were not using in our preliminary task. In the screenshots below you can see where our shots have improved:

Sound
 In terms of sound, our sound use has vastly improved from where it was at the beginning of the year (our preliminary). This is shown through the fact that we used a combination of diegetic sounds (gun shots, footsteps, glass smashing etc) as well as non-diegetic sounds such as the tense music we used in the back of our piece. This is in contrast to our preliminary task as although we attempted to use both diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, there is a moment in the film where we cut the music off for dialogue and a distinct camera sound is heard, which not only takes away from the realism of the film(the verisilimtude) but also the professionalism as this sort of thing just wouldn't happen in a professional film. An example of good sound use in our film is the cut from non-diegetic sound to a startling jump sound when the title appears.

Mise-en-scene and props

Our use of mise-en-scene and props has hugely improved over the period of this year. Whereas in the preliminary task, the stars of the film weren't really told what to wear and the props were scarcely used. Similarly, although it is unobvious, our stars did wear different clothes in some of he shots. This is in contrast with our final task where our actors were told what to wear, from down to the pyjamas in the first scene, to the suit put on and the motorcycle leathers o the antagonist. Similarly, seen at the end of the film, on the wall you can see a list of people our character has obviously been told to kill (being a hitman) and their whereabouts. This shows the detail we went into when creating our props and making our setting. Furthermore, our setting also shows our improvement, as we sourced a place that makes our character look like he has a family. All this shows our improvement of setting. mise-en-scene and props (the screenshot below shows the wall-mounted hitman list above)