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Looking Back at Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt in The Progression From It To The Final Product?

Ben Jackson reflects on what he learned from creating a preliminary video project and improving it into a final product for his AS Media course. He discusses three key continuity editing techniques - match on action, focus pull, and the 180 degree rule - that he incorporated and improved upon from his preliminary video to his opening sequence final product. Feedback from test audiences helped him identify areas for improvement, such as making focus pulls less blurry. Overall, creating a preliminary project helped him develop his skills in continuity editing and applying techniques professionally for his final video.

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Looking Back at Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt in The Progression From It To The Final Product?

Ben Jackson reflects on what he learned from creating a preliminary video project and improving it into a final product for his AS Media course. He discusses three key continuity editing techniques - match on action, focus pull, and the 180 degree rule - that he incorporated and improved upon from his preliminary video to his opening sequence final product. Feedback from test audiences helped him identify areas for improvement, such as making focus pulls less blurry. Overall, creating a preliminary project helped him develop his skills in continuity editing and applying techniques professionally for his final video.

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Ben Jackson

AS Media Evaluation

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the final product?
Introduction: The main reason for producing the preliminary in which we did at the start of the AS Media course was to educate our knowledge into continuity editing skills and also identify the features and effects etc. that we would want involved in our final product and what we wouldnt want, such as bad camera angles or un-effective colour correction etc. The main skills I learned from the progression until the final product are... Match on Action: In my preliminary we used a match on action when Drew (Tyrell) is using his phone, a shot of his face is shown and then a close-up of his phone is shown, when watching this over me and my production team felt this was an effective technique and decided to incorporate that into the final cut. From this I decided that more of these would be effective within our opening sequence and therefore several are involved, one being when the detective is calling the mysterious number the policeman had discovered and another when he looks under the cover of the dead body. Our audience feedback had shown that incorporating these shots were appealing and also effective towards the overall look of the opening sequence, however continuity of certain match and actions were still to be improved but other than that still very good. Focus Pull: I had learned how to focus pull during my preliminary and it was included in one shot, from using that I decided that maybe a longer focus pull that moves as well would be better due to a member of the production saying this would have been an improvement, therefore in the opening sequence it was incorporated. The focus pull was used when the burglar enters the house and walks upstairs as it pans over to the tied up individuals and focuses onto them, I thought this was effective and also more professional than my focus pull in the preliminary however, audience feedback had suggested it was blurry for too long than it needed to be. 180 Degree Rule: In our preliminary it was compulsory to incorporate the 180 degree rule and this had taught me that it was an effective and important trait when filming a scene behind or directly in front of a character. We incorporated this in the preliminary when Drew and his boss conversed at the HQ. We included this in our opening sequence when the detective enters the living room containing the victim, the camera was panned around the back of the detective and then lowered in synchronisation with the detective also lowering to the ground to take a closer look. This shot was much more professional than my previous focus pull included in the preliminary and had turned out a lot better. Conclusion In conclusion I feel that by producing a preliminary video it had taught me some new techniques in continuity editing and other aspects as well. Also it had helped me develop and improve my skills in aspects in which i was already familiar with such as the 180 degree rule which i had before not known how to perfect in a way in which i did when filming the preliminary and watching it over.

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