Post-Production Evaluation

Post-Production

In the pre-production phase of our prelim, we thought that there would be a lot of problems when it came to editing our prelim, because we thought that if the footage didn’t fit then we would have to film the whole thing again. When we realised that we could use the Smartphone app, IMovie, we found that this task got increasingly less stressful. We quickly got to grips with the techniques that we can use and used a lot of them throughout our prelim. For our main thriller task, we found that we can use a lot of different editing techniques and apps to help us create a thriller video for the main task. When we showed some people our prelim video, we did get quite a lot of positive feedback. Some people said that they liked the way that we used the fades between each scene; they added that it made it look really effective. Some people said that they thought the different camera shots we used made it really effective and meaningful. You could really see the emotions and annoyance in the characters faces. When we watched the final video back, it did match our visualisation quite a bit but our ideas did change throughout. This didn’t help when it came to making our final video match our visualisation but as we went through the production process we realised that some of our ideas really did fit in well with what our original idea. By having this experience, we still haven’t decided whether or not we are going to use a phone and film it on IMovie or if we are going to use the software on a computer and film it with a video camera. By using IMovie to film this short 30 second clip, it gave the experience and taught us a lesson so we know how to use it when it comes to filming our actual thriller video. The prelim really helped us because it also taught us a lot a different skills we can use, how to shoot the different camera shots and also to use our timing efficiently. We as a group are quite glad that we got the chance to film the prelim because it taught us to work as a team and made us realise that it is harder than it looks. Therefore we now know how all the possible problems and dilemmas that should come up during our thriller. We went to our media teacher for some feedback on our final prelim video and there was a lot of constructive criticism given. Some of the things that were discussed were about the transitions used. Using the amount of fades and whips, took away the continuity and the flow of our video. This helped us because now we know that not to use as mush or even no transitions at all in our final thriller piece. Team work was one of our strongest strengths in this task. Even though we had a few disagreements, we managed to overcome them and still stay as a tight team unit.