Overview

Now that our 2 minute opening is finished and we have finished our evaluations, I think I should write a bit about the whole experience.

Since our prelim task, my group has come a long way. We have learnt how to do new shots such as tracking, establishing shots, high angles, low angles and close-ups. We have used these shots for certain reasons as well, for example our establishing shot shows where our film is based and gives the audience an insight into what kind of genre our film is. Our close-ups shots gave our main character feelings and shows detail. It created tension and that is exactly what our group were aiming for with our 2 minute opening.

We also have learnt a lot with the use of mise-en-scene. We chose to dress our main character in basic clothing, making her look rough and all natural. This gave our 2 minute opening an uncomfortable feel. We made Leanne keep her make-up off and hair natural so that we could stress the idea that she was in a crisis.

Our editing has come such a long way and I cant believe how much time we spent editing! We have learnt how to edit in music, how to add ambient sound, how to crop shots and put it all together so it runs smoothly. We have had a lot of difficulties with editing, such as the time-lapse taking up 2 minutes! However, we learnt a way to get around this problem; by uploading it to youtube and then uploading the youtube clip back on to imovie allowing us to speed the clip up even more.

We have had such a great year in media, I feel that my group has especially come a long way from our prelim as we have really experimented with our shots and editing. Our ideas just weren't put on paper but actually filmed and created!