Final Evaluation: Question 7

                                                                Part 1 of Q7 Evaluation. 

Part 2 of Q7 Evaluation. 

I feel we have progressed majorly from our preliminary task. Although our prelim wasn't bad, as a group we had to adjust to the equipment we were using (e.g. the cameras and tripods) in order for our film to look as well presented as possible and being able to do such a varied task allowed us to gain experience using such equipment. We noted in our prelim that there were a few problems concerning our editing, for example our match on action wasn't the best that it could have been. We wanted to make sure we overcame these issues in our real film and I feel this is something we have achieved. Eventhough our film is mainly made of disjointed 'memories', there were still elements of it that had to match up, such as the police station section. When editing this particular part we took extra care to make sure it all flowed smoothly. having a smooth running piece makes it look far more professional and this is something we strived for.
Similarly, in our prelim no one was overly eager to act, seeing as we had no experience and didn't feel we could act in a way that was believable. With this being said we addressed the problem head on. We still wanted to use members of our group within our prelim as we felt this made it more personal and we would be able to manipulate it as we pleased without the fear of upsetting an outside actor/actress. Luckily, our film required very minimal actual acting - we used Evie to play the part of the main girl and all she had to do was the 'movements' as such, she didn't have to act out particular scenes. However, we did use her voice as our voice over. Again, the voice over is something I feel that shows our progression. In our prelim, the sound is one of the main things we struggled with, we managed to download music and place that over our existing clips but we did it very caustiously and felt we could have done a better job had we had experience. We went one step further with our real film and really tried to exceed our boundaries - choosing to have a voiceover as well as music was quite an ambitious decision. Regardless of our doubts, we successfully imported our voice over, over the sounds that can be heard in the actual clips. Alongside all of this, we actually made our own music too using garage band. We didn't use garage band for our prelim either, so this was something very alien to us, yet we still managed to produce what we feel is a great piece of music. I feel this is a clear improvement from our prelim to our real film.