The purpose of this task was to experience the editing software in our own individual groups, giving us more independence than the class preliminary. Through this we could experiment with many more angles and shots which, once learnt how to shoot successfully, we can use when producing our final film. A selection of our shots included match on action, shot reverse shot, over the shoulder and long shot. Using a variety of shots allowed us to make the sequence a more interesting for the audience rather than consistently using one angle throughout.
A difficulty we found was the lack of experience we had with the editing program, premiere pro, this limited our ability to explore many different editing techniques such as use of audio. If i were to repeat this task i would have added other audio than the existing dialogue, this would be both ambient sound and a non-diagetic soundtrack to set the mood of the scene and build upon the mysterious narrative. A further limitation with the advanced program was our inability to change the colouring to increase the contrast and saturation, making the footage more cinematic and producing a serious, professional looking scene. Another difficulty we faced was making our footage continuous when editing as some shots didn't flow from one scene to the next and it made it obvious when there was a shot change.
When producing our preliminary film we did not plan out our scenes or locations so we were limited to filming in school which we attempted to make less obvious when filming in the toilet cubicle. An issue which occurred as a result of us not planning effectively or producing a storyboard meant we started to film irrelevant scenes, which took up a considerable amount of our filming time and it made it harder to have the consistency of the narrative throughout as our scenes were predominantly improvised.
Through this task i have learnt how to use the editing program more effectively and i now know the importance in planning ahead with the use of a storyboard. This will therefore be a more effective use of my time as i can follow the scenes planned and use a variety of shots. Planning my scenes would consequently make it easier to achieve a continuous, invisible editing, meaning no scene changes would be obvious to the audience, use of video transitions would help to assist this
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