Evaluation.

Since starting our media course we have been carrying out a series of tasks as part of our continuity project. For the final task we had to put together a short film to show what we had learnt in terms of shots and techniques by making sure to include match on action, cut in, cut out, 180 degree rule and shot/reverse shot.

We had to make a story board with still shots of cuts so that we had a plan of what we were going to be filming. This helped our group a lot as we had made some errors in the still photos that we were then able to correct when filming. The filming went really well and we completed in a short amount of time, we all took turns at filming but it was only Zoe and Emily acting. When we thought it was 'a wrap' we took our camera and plugged it into the computer to transfer the film to the Adobe programme for editing. None of us had used the programme before so it was a bit of trial and error before we finally got the hang of it and uploaded our film shot by shot ready to edit. We then clicked and dragged the selected shots and made them shorter and cut them so that they looked smooth and professional using match on action techniques.

When it came to adding the cut in we realised that we had filmed a zoom in instead. This was quite a problem and took a lot of changing and re arranging to try and make it a cut in, we even had to use silent clips from other shots to fill in the zooming parts! Even with this the picture was not long enough for the audio so in the final thin part of the audio is cut but we don't mind as we have included everything that was originally asked for from the task. If we were to redo the task or had more time we would have re filmed the shot so that nothing was cut and it was more professional looking. After completing the editing we uploaded the video to YouTube and linked it to our blog. We learnt a lot of information about filming and editing as well as time control! We will certainly take our knowledge from this project and use it wisely on the next!