7 WHAT HAVE I LEARNED ABOUT FILM MAKING

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



I worked with Francesca Tarpy, Tom Richards and Alistair Simpson to create our preliminary exercise. Before my group created the preliminary task we did very little research, as this seemed like quite a simple exercise. We used a professional camera to film and expert editing software to create the final piece. Our story line consisted of a man visiting and an antique expert to give a value to his object, including reaction shots, close up shots and the 180-degree rule. The 180-degree rule is where an imaginary line called the axis connects the characters by keeping the camera on one side of the axis for every shot taken in that scene. 

 Here you can see one of the close up shots we used in our preliminary exercise. This close up shots shows Tom (antiques appraiser) putting on his glasses to inspect the object.  










We also experimented with over the shoulder shots, showing Alistair (customer) explaining how he would like to know the value of his antique. 








As we did not do a lot of research towards the beginning of the year we later decided if would be important to research and analyse other opening title sequences, therefore chose to use Art of the Title (link here). Art of the title is a Blog analysing video clips of notable time sequences from film and television. 

 I used Emaze to present my analysis of the opening sequence to Deadpool. My presentation included six slides, a title page, genre, titles and production company, miss-en-scene, editing and extra analysis. 

Once we had the footage of the film we had to edit. For the prelim I learnt the basics to editing using iMovie. I have also previously learnt about how to edit on iMovie at a film making course outside of school.  Therefore, i was confident when editing the film and enjoyed adding the non diegetic sound. 

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All three members of the group created the ident together in which we made an animation of the word 'JAM' made its way out of a jam jar. We decided on this name as it is the first letter of all the members names. After taking all the photographs for the animation we put them together in iStopmotion and finally added the non-diabetic sound of the jar opening and a fly buzzing round it. I feel that this created quite a quirky and successful ident.