Part 8 - Preliminary Excercise.

My preliminary task wasn't my greatest of finished pieces but it was quite successful in terms of the camera shots and edits we used. this wasn't my first time in using equipment, like cameras, macs and the programes that are featured on them. So using equipment wasn't one of our problems, i liked our editing and shots that we used, although our final piece didn't turn out quite like we'd hoped. this was because our planning and research was so much more detailed and we had an idea in our head of how it would look, so when it turned out not so great we were quite disappointed. Our final film didn't look very creative or thought through, like we had rushed it and had no planning, although this could of been due to some our film being deleted, meaning that we had to film again which made everything harder, we were on a tighter time and we had to make everything look and sound the same.
Due to not doing so well in the priliminary task, it made me want to do better in my British Social Realist opening sequence as i knew i could do better, which i think i did, in terms of, not just planning but our final piece as well.
Least successful in this task, in my opinion was, our use of timings as we left things until the last second and had to re film a lot due to loss of footage, although this was not our fault. Our sound on the footage, when watching it over was very blurred and not clear, this was because of the wind blowing whilst we was filming, this could not be helped though, but it was a problem. Also using a young child in our film, turned out for the worse as it caused more problems than it helped. Due to the child being little they didn't understand and could not actually act so that made things more difficult and time consuming.
To impove the outcome of my British Social Realist opening sequence, we did not involve a child and had people that were involved in the making of the opening sequence acting so that there was no trouble with people not being able to do it. Also this time round, sound was not a problem as when we filmed outside it was quite nice weather, no wind and it was not very conversational so that the wind would not block out any important spoken words.
Also in this task, i think we had more control over what we could do, in terms of shots, locations, basically anything, apart from the themes and conventions. Having more space, i think, allowed us to do more and achieve a better, finished film.