Monday, 26 October 2015

A-LEVEL MEDIA STUDIES: Preliminary Task 1 - Evaluation

For my Media Preliminary task, the filming was successful as everything was filmed promptly and quickly. Despite the editing stage being relatively successful, as I was able to attain copyright free music which worked very well in my film, I did come up against a problem. I discovered that as a result of a technical error, the sound of my clips didn’t record and thus all sound was lost. As such I required my actors, Charlie and Rowan, to re-dub the sound for me and then I could edit it back into the filmed clips. This process went well as Charlie and Rowans dubbing was perfect and therefore made it easier for me to sync the two separate media files together. If I could improve anything I would certainly improve my camera quality, as it was occasionally blurred, and to make sure the sound works while filming. I could do this by test recording a sound and playing it back to make sure it has registered, by doing this I wouldn’t have to re-dub sound and I would have more time to edit effectively.

On 05/11/15 I received feedback for my Preliminary Task, the feedback was generally positive as my 3 required elements were praised. However a criticism was that slightly more match on action was required in order to keep the film fresh and easier cut. I will take that into great consideration when I film and edit my AS Film Opening in the New Year. 

A-LEVEL MEDIA STUDIES: Preliminary Task 1 - Storyboard