Question 7

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

Technical skills:

I sense my technical skills of working with a camcorder have improved massively during this project as I have learnt so much. When I was first given a camcorder in class and asked to create a short film of any genre I was immediately alarmed as I had never done anything of the sort, it was all a little advanced for me. However looking back on the complete project I think I managed to pick up and learn a lot of the skills. Below is my first time of filming when given a camrea.
 

 

 
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Throughout our film we tried to include as many different camera angles as possible, I had know idea half of these shots existed! The panning shot was easily my preferred shot, panning refers to the rotation in a horizontal scan of a still camcorder. Panning a camera results in a motion similar to that of someone shaking their head from side to side or someone walking up a stairway. I feel using this shot helped create the feeling of motion, nevertheless capturing this angle was exceptionally ambitious as it requires a steady hand and a lot of patience. We also struggled with capturing the angles as we had no idea what it would look like in the completed project, thankfully it has come together pleasantly.

Setting up our surroundings was time consuming, we had it all in our minds yet when creating it we struggled. Doing a test run accompanied this as it gave us an idea of what our set up surroundings looked like on our film and how they tied in with our representation.



Time management and organisation:


I've never really had any skills in management and organisation. Yet I must say whilst doing this project my organisation and management have improved massively, keeping up with my blog and filming at the same time has been a push however I have managed it. 

After a couple lessons at school on this project I decided to create a filming and blogging schedule, this encouraged me to keep up with my work once I had complete tasks on my schedule I was satisfied. I had hoped this would help with the stress levels, unfortunately it did not. Out of the two I feel my organisation skills were achieved a lot better than my time keeping management skills yet I also feel I benefited from this and learned a lot.

 
 

 

Team skills:
 

Functioning successfully as a small team required clear communication on an intellectual level and an emotion level. Open communication where we shared our thoughts, ideas and feelings was crucial as unspoken assumptions and issues could have been destructive towards our project and interrupted our team functioning.

 

 

Harriet, beth and I were able to communicate openly allowing: listening,

questioning, persuading, respecting, helping, sharing and participating all to take place well. I feel

we all did well and we created a strong team bond where we all felt comfortable speaking up, being heard and with the final ideas. 

Effectiveness of the finished product:

When we first got given this project I had no idea what I would be creating and no idea of the skills required,I have learnt a lot of these skills. It's still extremely advanced.

 

Coming up with the storyline/storyboard was the beginning, even this was a lot harder than I first thought, which i did enjoy because we got to chose how and what our stotyrline was.



After doing the storyline it was critical we came up with an appropriate certificate as getting this wrong could distort our film. overall we chose a 15 even though it was just a 2minutes opening which you can't really show much of a certification.




Having a target audience allowed me to focus in-depth on what to include and what not to, it also gave me a smaller area to cover, all I had to focus on was people in their late teens to early twenties instead of everyone.




I hope I have managed to capture the representation my group and I were going for, hopefully I have done this using all the aspects and treating them all equally, not as if one was more important than the other, these factors include the: style, visuality and sound which is called mis-en-scene.

 
 

Overall I have really enjoyed this project it has opened my mind creatively and given me plenty of new skills and made me want to carry media on further in life.

What have you learnt in the progression?Throughout the time during which I created my project I learnt so much, some of which has been thoroughly tough and really tested my patience. However I had to keep reinsuring myself it would all be worth it, now studying the complete project this is clear to me.