Media question 7

Question 7Looking back at your preliminary what do you feel you have learnt in the progression to the full product?

By Zoe Fisher

Prelimary research

– Due to the face a prelimary is a planning technique it is short. It helpedvwith the planning steps of our opening sequence because it helped us avoid breaking technique rules.

– From doing our prelimary I decided that i wanted to be the cinematographer because it is a hard role that takes a lot of thinking and planning but I thought I had to skills and determination to do this and it worked to my strengths.

– Me and my group researched into preliminary ‘s including rules techniques and existing prelimarys. This was important so that we had a baseline and an idea into time and techniques for the process of making our opening sequence.

Prelimary review 180° rule

– When making our prelimary we had to consider the 180° rule. This is where the when shooting a scene you can’t go over 180° past the line you first shot from. It has to stay on one side of he action. When doing our prelimary we had to plan so that we didn’t cross this rule. This keeps composition and structure for both characters and the audience. This was important to learn about in our preliminary because it would help to avoid breaking the guidelines in our final opening sequence. This rule allows framework and means the camera has to stay on one side of the frame/ where the characters are placed.

Shot reverse shot

A shot reverse shot is where one character is looking at another and then that character is seen looking back at the first character. - When we had made our prelimary we has to think

about weather we wanted to use this technique or not. With our final planning of our sequence we decided not to show the antagonistic face and that the audience would only see his arms so we didn’t use shot reverse shot.

- Watching back at our final product I am glad with the decision that we made.

The editing process

– Our preliminary helped our opening sequence because the research that we had done also helped with the editing process as we was able to learn about straight cuts and how we can change the speed depending on the situation and motion you want the audience to feel.

– We also learnt about added effects where we could add a visual color/effect sheet over the futage that we had took, because we was able to pre look at these editing effects this helped us to think about what we wanted to use for our opening sequence from the start.

What I have learnt – From the making the preliminary to our final product I have learnt about several

techniques and processes that we had undergo through the development of our opening sequence.

– I learnt about frame work and where things are placed and what is seen within the shot. This is important because it is vital to get this right as it is what the audience will initially see and will be looking at all areas of frame.

– I learnt about editing software and how we can add effects which we had done with our opening sequence and I believe that this made our opening sequence look visually more effective and professional and this may not have been as creative if we hadn’t have done our preliminary and found out about these techniques at the begining. This is shown in the second picture to the left. The top picture is where we added a shimmer fade over th top and this gave a great effect to our opening sequence.

Question 7

– By Zoe Fisher