From watching our preliminary task back, we can see that the start when Megan walks through the door isn't quite right because the continuity is a bit out. Also, the cross dissolve transition that we used to show time change wasn't as clear as we had hoped it would be. However, we found that the cutting from character to character during a conversation worked out OK despite issues we had with that in our editing process (we struggled to make the conversation flow). The Preliminary Task has taught us how to use the camera as we have not used that particular kind before, also, it was an opportunity to practice our camera shots so that when it comes to filming our Thriller we will hopefully be a bit better at shooting particular shots. Overall, our pre-task has drawn attention to continuity and how important it is to keep it flowing.

So Far So Good... (Preliminary Task)

The other week me and Holly went off to film our preliminary task, once we had found an apppropriate classroom (it took a while) and found our actress (Megan Tooke) we set to work on our filming and all in all I think we got around 80 shots. The reason why it took such a lot of shots was because me and Megan were acting together and found it very hard to keep a straight face- but we managed a few decent ones in the end! Today, me and Holly uploaded the shots onto iMovie and began our editing process, the programme (being slightly different to last year) was quite confusing at first, but it didn't take us too long to get the hang of it and now we can confidently use the programme (we hope!). Next lesson we should hopefully be continuing to get on with editing our pre-task and get that finished so that we can make a start on our actual Thriller Opening, which is now all planned for.

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