Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 7

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

On October 1st 2012 me and my media group conducted our first ever practical. We where put into small groups of three's or four's and where told my our teacher to go out and film and attempt to capture on camera some of the shots we had previously discussed in lesson. This included shots such as mid shot, long shot, close shot, pan and tilt.

This shot on the left, was an attempt at a long shot. I was the camera man and decided to tell Adeseye to stand away and walk into the camera as it is a common technique used in filming. On reflection I can see that it is not as good as I first thought, but the good thing is that we used a long shot in our finished media product. As you can see in the bottom picture, you can see that the long shot in the finished media product is better utilised. In the first practical obviously taking into consideration that this was the first ever chance we had to use the camera, I believe that there was no real effect of using the long shot of Adeseye walking in towards the camera, it was done because we felt that it was needed but it was not carefully thought through. However, when it mattered in the real finished product, we successfully used a long shot in order to give the viewers a good knowledge of the landscape. The bottom picture shows that we have progressed very well.

The shot on the left shows a zoom technique. I was filming our first practical and I decided that for this particular scene, I wanted to use the zoom technique. In this scene, Dylan (the person in the screen shot) is being told some heartbreaking news from Adeseye that a person in their family has died. I decided to use the zoom technique because it emphasises what is on the camera. By me choosing to zoom in on Dylan, it is exaggerating his emotions to the viewers. I strongly believe that this scene was successful in regards to the technique used, I also believe that with more planning it could have been a lot better. Having used the zoom technique in the first practical, I noticed that it is used in many Thrillers effectively and it was definitely a technique that I was going to take into consideration when making my Thriller. When making my Thriller we did not include a zoom and this is because my group members felt as though it was not really needed. However I strongly disagreed with them as I felt that if a zoom technique was used when Sarah dropped her phone, it would have foreshadowed that something mysterious would happen and the phone would have been a part of that.