Our preliminary exercise was continuity task involving the filming and editing of a character opening a door, walking in, sitting down and engaging in conversation with another character. Within this we had to include match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. Completing this task gave us a lot of initial skills, it allowed us to use the camera for the first time and get used to it, it allowed us to learn new basic skills on final cut and of course to begin to using blogger.
We then took these skills forward into the main task which was to create the titles and opening sequence of a new fiction film to last a maximum of 2 minutes. The experience we gained on the preliminary exercise definitely made it a lot easier than originally thought. It made sticking to the 180 degree rule a lot easier and we also included a match on action while opening a door in our final film. After the filming process we then once again used final cut to put it all together, after picking up the basics in the preliminary task we now had confidence to use more complicated techniques like adding transitions or even flashes. This helped our two minutes flow and made it what it is now. Blogger was also very easy to pick up and I know find no trouble using it.
All in all i have thoroughly enjoyed this experience and believe that i have learnt a great deal about many technologies that I had not used before.
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