Evaluation Question 7: What have you learnt from your preliminary task to the completion of your final piece?

I can say that I have definitely learnt a great deal from my time on this course since my preliminary task was created.

For starters, My continuity is much cleaner than it once was and I believe that I have learnt to properly identify where a continuity error has arose, as such the most notable use of this was my choice to cover up an error found in the characters placement between scenes with a line about an anonymous phone call leading to another shot of a phone booth. As you can see I mapped out what the problem was once I noticed it to illustrate the problem to my partner and we came up with this solution together as a team. This is quite a strong contrast to my old lazy attitude to continuity editing from my preliminary task, for example, in my original piece me and my original partner decided that it would be interesting to have a foot level shot of the character walking past, however, it didn't go as planned, we didn't actually notice the problem at first until it was pointed out to use by another individual. Originally we had the character walk from one scene to another, which was simple enough, however, we accidentally broke the 180 Degree rule to its greatest extent as the character walked to the left and emerged from the right, breaking the understandable flow of movement. To fix this issue we simply flipped the first frame but it could have been a lot worse if we were near a sign or something else where this would have been easier to see.

In realistic terms, this makes doesn't fit in with the
context of the story

Secondly, I believe my skills as a script writer have improved to some degree, I believe that I am getting better with the way I wish to show characters attitudes in film as my preliminary task was somewhat lacking in focus, indeed, the characters seemed very over the top and indeed very cliche, for example, the ending to the film itself is the main character turning to the camera and snapping his fingers to enter the title sequence, while it may have looked cool at the time it doesn't make any contextual sense and thereby makes it so that the entire piece is no longer believable, realistic and by that aspect absolutely pointless. In 'False Impression' we kept a much cleaner script with simple realistic dialogue moments where possible, we kept the dialogue realistic, occasionally delving into a bit of mild humor.

Scene Creation was a wonderful experience for
me and my team

I believe that I have developed a more creative sense of mind during the editing of these pieces, the most prominent of course being a new found trust in certain canned tools like warp stabilizers and the use of new and varied fades and dips, my original piece just stayed as a simple cut to cut style and it suffered greatly because of this. In connection to this I think that I have been a lot more creative in general camera use and certain effects, most prominently in this aspect are my use of Lighting, my low angle shots and my new found use of a moving shot as well as a stronger use of pans to really mix the piece up a bit to make it more exciting and interesting to view.

Indeed some of my most important things that I have learned stem from my having to work with a partner on this piece, In this sense, compromise and understanding have been a strong part in my learning cycle as I have gotten to know my partners style and genre skill just as they have learned mine.

I believe I have amassed a good bit of experience in this course which I hope to exercise entirely in the A2 Course greatly.