Practical Project Summary

Now that we have completed our pratical project i am able to look back and see what i felt went well and to plan and what did not. I believe that we worked well as a group as every lesson each person was set to do something towards the project, whether it be writing on the blog, planning for filming or editing the sequence.

Areas which i thought went well:

• Filming - I feel that the filming of the sequence went particualy well, even though Scott couldn't make it. This is because we shot the sequence all at once (we only had to go to the location of filming once,) the shots were of a good quality, we filmed the correct lenght of fottage and it did not take us long to complete the filming
• Editing - The editing went well as i believe that we found it quite easy to get the desired effect for each shot in a short space of time
• Blogging - at the end of my last coursework project i was told that one of the areas which i needed to imporve on was the amount and quality of the porjects blog. Because of this i have made a regular occurance of adding blogs after most lessons and as a group we have posted our ideas, resolutions to problems and decisions on the blog to what i believe to be a high standard

Areas which i believe could have been improved:

• Uploading images to the blog - Although this was one of the areas for improvement after the last coursework project as a group i believe that we found it had to know what types of images to insert and where to put them. Because of this we found ourselves atempting to add photos at every possible point

What have i learnt from the producting of our film opening:

After completing the project i feel that i have become a lot more competent in using final cut compared to when i finished the last project. This is because i feel that i have been more involved in some of the decision making and as a result also in what to do if something has gone wrong and how to fix the problem. I also feel that i have a wider knowledge of final cut as we have used alot more effects in this project compared to my last. For example the footage that we shot of ben who was playing the main character we found to be very bright, because of this we chose to use the desaturation effect tool to darken each shot untill we achieved the desired feel. We also used a voiceover narrator who was telling the story so far of the main character, this had to be edited and cut to fit with the film shots. This editing included inserting 'slugs' between the cuts in the audio sequence making it flow smother when it was being played and adding ambient noises t when ben was not talking so that there was never no sound.