Evaluating Question 7
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The document discusses the filmmaking process, focusing on techniques used to portray the main character's walking and build tension in the narrative. It highlights lessons learned in camera angles, lighting, and editing, emphasizing the importance of continuity and clarity in character portrayal. Additionally, it reflects on specific editing choices, such as match on action, and lessons for improvement in future projects.
Evaluating Question 7
- 2. In our preliminary task we used the Unfortunately we exaggerated the process of our main character walking effect of someone walking to the down the corridor to give an extent of which we made them look impression of what he was looking at like they were stumbling around. and how he was walking. This was also used to build the tension to what was about to happen
- 3. We learnt that we should only use This made the film look professional shot reverse shot if we were as we executed it reasonably well and kept a simple sense of looking at our character from a continuity throughout. It was also third person perspective as doing edited simply and smoothly as we from a first person perspective didn’t want too many jump cuts as wouldn’t be as effective as if it that wasn’t the genre of our film was someone looking into this and we wanted to create a calm persons life. atmosphere.
- 4. In our original task we kept to the 180 We transferred this knowledge we had degree rule really easily as it meant we over to our final piece as we only just had to make sure the camera showed our main soldier walking faced a certain way without it moving through the field to only on one side. or cutting to a shot of another part of This was used because we felt that we the room. only needed to show one half of the field to represent where the character was and how alone he was. Put simply, the soldier was the sole focus of the sequence not necessarily what was around him.
- 5. We also learnt that you need lots of So when it came to our main task we lighting to make the characters seen opened all the curtains in the room we clearly as shown above we had the were filming in and used what lighting lights turned up all the way but we we had (lamps and the main room only found out it wasn’t bright enough lighting) to make sure people could until editing so we had no choice but see the characters emotion clearly. to work with what we had. And as clearly seen in the final cut the character can be clearly seen.
- 6. We used this match on action to show So when we next used a match on our character in our preliminary task action it was of our character walking as he walked through a door. This was down a wet and muddy lane and then a simple piece of editing we felt we as he walked into a puddle it cut to a could have done better with. close up of our soldier stepping in the puddle which worked as a good transition into the next shot. One thing that may be considered about the shot was it may of paused on the puddle too long after it had been stepped in.