I have progressed a lot since my preliminary task.
This is my preliminary task video, as you can see the camera quality is very bad, we used HD cameras for the final product, and the editing and camerawork is poor. Here I struggled to get the basic camera techniques such as match on action, this is because my knowledge of camera techniques and how to used the hardware including tripod was very limited. The story line in this video is also very poor this is because back then I didn't really know what made a good story. This changed a lot as i did some research and began to learn what made a good and interesting story that people will want to watch.
Above is my final product. Here you can see how I have learned to use all of the main camera techniques and also how my overall camerawork is a lot better. You can also see that the video quality in this video is very good in comparison to the preliminary tasks video, this is due to the fact that we were given HD cameras to film with which were a lot nicer than the old style cameras to film with.
As in the preliminary tasks video I had little experience in using the camera and tripod there for the camera seemed very shaky and UN-smooth, in the final product I was very confident in using all of the hardware the the camerawork was good and the video came out pretty smooth.
The lighting in the final product is also a lot better than in my preliminary video, this is because I learned how to utilize all of the light i had available to me in the final product where as in the preliminary I didn't really understand how lighting effected the quality of what I was filming. Research taught me a lot about the simple things like how light effects video.
The audio quality improved dramatically from the preliminary task to my final piece, this is because in the preliminary we were using a wired microphone which was extremely hard to work with and the sound quality wasn't that great, this is why movement in the preliminary task was very limited.
In my final product we used HD cameras which had a built in microphone of high quality. As a result of this the sound in our final product is very clear making things such as footsteps on the ground audible.
Diagetic sounds were used well in both of the videos, this is because in the preliminary task I had an understanding of what diagetic sound was and how it should be used, the microphone had a hard time picking up the diagetic sound in the preliminary task though.
Non diagetic sound was not used in the preliminary task as back then my editing skills were very limited and I didn't have the knowledge of how to put in things such as music. By the time i made my final product I was very confident in editing there for was able to put in some diagetic sound and also make it fit in with what was being portrayed on screen.
Continuity was maintained very well in the final piece however very poorly in the preliminary as the clothes appear to be different in scenes, this is as we filmed on different days and was unable to get hold of the same clothes. Continuity in the final product was good as all the clothes remain the same and everything that is going on on screen makes sense.
Continuity editing was maintained well throughout both the preliminary task and the final product, this is because I had knowledge about continuity editing when filming the preliminary and an even further understanding of continuity editing by the time it came to filming the final product.
Filming and editing for the preliminary task taught me a lot about what I needed to do to make a good product that people would want to see. Through research I learned how to correctly use all of the hardware and software which enabled me to create a good product by the time it came round to filming and editing my final product. Without making the video for the preliminary work my final product wouldn't be as good as it currently is . My preliminary task video taught me that I needed to create far better story lines and showed me what doesn't look good on camera so by the time
i made my final product I was able to use better camerawork and create a more interesting story line.
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