Looking
back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the main task?
At the
start of the course I had very little knowledge and experience of how to use a
camera and the things you can do with a camera, like the camera angles you can
use. I had next to no knowledge on editing either. I didn’t know how to use diegetic
and non-diegetic sound.
Between
the times of the prelim task to the main task I feel my media knowledge has
increased a lot, I now know how to make different camera angles effective, and
use the sound and lighting to our advantage, also I used the editing that we
learnt.
I was
very confident with using different camera angles when we were filming our
media product because of what we learnt in class and the experience I got from
the prelim. I am a lot more confident when deciding where to film in regards to
the lighting or the sound. I have more knowledge on this because of the prelim
task but also because of the ability to use cameras when we wanted so I could
gain more experience with that.
I also
realised how much editing comes in to play with a media product and how
mis-en-scene plays a massive role in creating a sucsessful media product. And how
you don’t realise how much stereotypes are represented in the media with the
mis-en-scene. Editing also helps a media product become sucsessful because it
helps to make the product what you want and make sure its how you pictured it
before you started the task.
I also
learned some skills that aren’t necessarily related to the media studies
course, like how to work well in a team, how important it is to assign roles
and give jobs to people so the work load does not overflow for the team, I learnt
that there will be constant disagreements and that they are unavoidable but
that it takes a good team to recover from an argument.
