Preliminary Task Evaluation

I learnt a lot about Adobe Premiere as I’ve never used it before. I’ve always edited anything on Sony Vegas on a PC and not a MAC. I learn how to cut clips down to the time frame necessary, add transitions, titles, change the lighting levels & contrast as well as change the time scale of some of the shots so they are now in slow motion in comparison to what they were before. This will help me to edit anything in the future more successfully and to a higher standard than I already have done.

The 180 degree rule:
If you can imagine an actor walking you can imagine a line they are walking on with the 180 degree rule you choose one side of this line and you stick to that one side as all coverage should generally be shot from one side or the other of this imaginary line. The audience subconsciously forms a mental map of where the actors are located in the scene this allows the audience to become more a part of the scene and in whole, the movie itself, if you were to cross this imaginary line then your view becomes jumbled as everything you have mentally mapped has now flipped over which cause you to become disorientated with the entire scene.

The close up:

The use of a close up is to give the audience a full experience with the emotions that are being shown by a character, it is said that the face is an actors tool so the close up of the face is perhaps one of the most important building blocks for a story.

The Two-shot:

This shot is used to establish a link between two people, in the case of our Preliminary Task it is in place to establish the connection between Liam and Alex as with them both in the frame they show both equal importance and hint that there may be more of the story revolving around them.

The Filming process did not go as well as we would have hoped due to all 3 of our actors were not very experienced with acting so the task shows a very amateur acting job done, we would have wished to let it come across as better but with in our group we had to deal with shyness and the lack of focus when filming the scenes, our locations were perfect for what we wanted as we were able to let Mr.Lobo lend us his office to film in. the editing was rather shoddy as we all had input instead of one person checking it over and editing, due to 4 people editing one clip, large mistakes were missed and left in for example, my voice is heard in a scene counting Paige in to meet Alex which should have been cut out but wasn't. The last scene took multiple attempts to film due to both acting issues and technical issues with the camera as when we were about to film our final take which we thought would have been the perfect take, the camera battery ran out so we had to wait for it to charge and then film the scene again which came out the other side as we wished it to. In conclusion the final cut turned out not as good as we expected but we may have wished too much of it and not focused as much as we should

I learnt much about Adobe Premiere as I am used to using Sony Vegas on my PC and not using a mac so it was difficult at first to navigate my way around the mac but after a while I have got used to it and can navigate my way around easily.