AS Media Evaluation

1. By Adam Wilton

2. - Yes, during our Preliminary task we had little idea on how to effectively use the
camera and get good angles, resulting in shots which didn’t work, the angles were
either not level or positioned in a way that led to the scene not being presented in
a good way which ultimately didn’t give us a very good preliminary task.
- Since then however we have researched and looked at tutorials on how to
effectively use the camera to get good quality shots and that has had a huge
impact on how our final piece turned out.
- For example in the real production in the picture shown
above, we used the natural light to our advantage to create
a dark intimidating scene to reflect the character, the
preliminary doesn’t do anything about the lighting, leading
to a mundane shot. The production shot was done with
chiaroscuro lighting in mind.

3. - Editing was also of a poor standard for our preliminary, you
could hear as much background noise as you could the
speech and the clips were poorly stitched together, this lead
to a jumpy and unrealistic piece.
- Since then we researched how to use the editing program
Adobe Premiere Elements 11 through tutorials and forums
and our final piece was of a much higher standard.

4. - In terms of lighting there is also a huge jump in
terms of quality from our Preliminary task to final
piece, in our Preliminary task the lighting wasn’t
managed at all leading to the scene having arguably
too much lighting for the entire piece with no
variation at all.
- But in our final piece we have a mixture of lighting,
ranging from the dark scene with the ‘boss’ in the
second scene to a decent lighting in the first. The
variation gives a good cut.

5. - We also learned that we can’t control the weather and
worked around the weather to give an authentic look so it
conformed to the codes and conventions of our genre.
- This meant we had to make sure it was cloudy during the
car scene as to have it either sunny would be odd of this kind
of film and raining would of provided for very precarious
filming.
- This is different to the Preliminary task where we just filmed
inside on a sunny day regardless of anything in terms of
codes and conventions and therefore doesn’t give an
authentic look.

6. - We have also come a long way from conforming to the
genre itself. In the Preliminary task you’d have a tough
time trying to figure out the genre of the video if there
was one at all.
- We made it hastily and therefore paid little to whether
the video fitted into the genre we was aiming for.
- In the final piece however we made sure that this was
rectified and so the video is clearly a British crime film.
You’d be hard pushed to mistake it for a romantic
comedy.

7. - So overall we have come a very long way from our
preliminary task to our final piece. Every aspect our
conduct has improved to give a much better product.
- The editing, camera angles, lighting, acting and
sound of the final piece are professionally done
where as the preliminary task was done quickly
without a sense of purpose.