Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your pre-lim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

As I state in the above biteable presentation I believe that this is a far greater attempt at filming compared to the prelim task that I did. One of the reason I believe that this film went much better than the prelim was that we had less group members to argue with. What I mean by this is that when we first filmed our prelim two members of our group weren't focused when filming which lead to the entire group losing focus which could be seen as we our prelim was much shorter compared to other groups prelim as we had to re film most shots at the last minute. Because of this when the two members of our group left me and Callum focus much more on making the film which lead to a far better film being produced.

Prelim

Final film

Furthermore, one of the most notable things about my new film is the improved quality of the acting and the music in the background. Firstly, the acting has improved greatly since the prelim this can mainly be seen through the callum. In the prelim picture Callum's walking looks unnatural as if his arms are fixated to sides because they barely move when he walks making his movement            look lifeless and robotic. Now looking at Callum in the picture from the final film he looks his movement looks a lot more natural compared to the prelim his arms move more fluently when he walks making him look more realistic. Furthermore, Callum in the final film is playing a much more serious role (spy) than in the prelim film (college student) which can be seen in the way that he acts because he moves slower keeping his head down trying to look smaller so he would be harder to see.

In addition, I also mention in the biteable presentation that the video quality has improved and what I mean by this is that I spent far more time editing to make the quality of the film better by adding more smooth transitions between each shot (cross dissolves, fade in/out). Another thing that I also did was use colour correction to make the scenes brighter/darker to make the location seem more sinister and The Infiltrator isolated as if the darkness around him is getting closer and closer.