More than Just Lines on a Map: Best Practices for U.S Bike Routes
Task seven fenella saunders
1. TASK SEVEN
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progressionfrom it to full product?
The first time I used any filming equipment for media studies was
when we were put into groups of three to make a minute film where
two people exchange a few lines of dialogue whilst sitting at a table
and then they walk off. (https://youtu.be/0v6casyHHFc)
In this Prelim task, I learnt about over the shoulder shots and about
the 180 degree rule. We used bother of these in our first video, and
we also tried to have some sort of flow in the continuity. Looking
back at this task, I realise how better my group and I have grown in
our skills of editing and filming. We also used more equipment for
our main task e.g. a tripod and a microphone. This helped stabilize
the camera for filming and created more audio opportunities for us.
This made an overall improvement on the quality and skill shown in
the final version.
Another improvement we made on the final cut is the variety of
different shots and filming techniques we used in the final task. The
majority of the prelim task had very simple angles and shots, as
shown below. This is unlike the variety of still and moving shots
used in the final task.
This first shot is from the prelim task and you
can see it is quite basic though every film
madehas basic shots much like these ones.
Yet this whole film consisted of simple shots
like this one rather than showing variation
like the final task did, as shown in the second
picture.
The finaltask had many differentcamera
angles, ones from the floor, abovethe actors
and movingoneswhich look up, down and
sidewaysrapidly.
Not only was the filmingbetter but also the
editing. This was mainly down to the fact that
by time it wastime to edit, we had spent a lot
moretime on Final CutPro so wewere more
used to it and knew about what more it had
to offer.