EVALUATION OF PRELIMINARY TASK

For our preliminary task we wanted to improve it from last year as we feel like we have
gained new skills and have developed our old ones. As a group we wanted to use all the skills
we had gathered and put them into practice within our preliminary task.

When looking back at our old preliminary task, it was clear to see that we used very basic
editing alongside very basic camera shots. Whereas in our more recent preliminary task we
used a variety of shots, and tried to use more abstract editing, this can be seen through our fast
edits when the girls in sitting and looking at her phone.

Improvements we made from last year to this year included; at the very beginning we had
production titles. This made our preliminary task look more professional, this was also joined
by credits at the end. Even though it was a very short piece of work, we feel that it had good
aspects.

We used a different location this year which mean we had variety in our setting from last year
as we wanted to experiment with different shots too. We also wanted to try out this setting as
we wanted to use it as part of our final film trailer. We found that it worked well, and the
preliminary task was very helpful in constructing our ideas for our final piece.

However, when filming we found that the surroundings were quite noisy, and we noted that
at certain times of the day, the location of the station would be very busy as it is a regularly
used station.

When it came to the editing process, we found it quite easy to edit, however when we
uploaded we found that the whole piece had a black border around it. We used it anyway as
we were proud of our work, however we have had to work out why this happen and we have
had to find a solution for our final piece as it wouldn't look professional otherwise.

The sound behind the videos didn't quite come out as planned. We were happy with the
opening titles sound effects, yet after the first train noise, and the voice over the train just
cut out. We didn't think if fit quite right, therefore we know now that we've got to spend a bit
more time carefully cutting together our sound effects and voice over clips to make it flow better.