Main Task Development


Camera Shots 

After we completed out Preliminary task, we had to develop new camera skills and different ways to produce our film after removing the errors we made in our preliminary. We looked back over our preliminary intensively and notified the areas which had been completed well and the areas we would need to improve on. We found that most camera shots lacked any depth or realism because we used a tri-pod in all of our shots.
In lesson time we ran through some practise scenes holding tri-pod the camera sat on instead of placing it down and filming. We found when filming like this, the effect of the camera not being stationary and
still brought the shots to life and brightened up the camera shots.




Editing

After analysing the editing from our preliminary task we decided there were many clips which were either boring shots or shots which didn't have camera movement. We had to develop a skill to edit any still looking shots and make them into exciting shot which could build tension and anticipation in certain scenes in our film. We decided to dedicate some time to learn the 'Ken Burns' effect. This effect would brighten up our boring camera shots by gradually panning in or out of shots we specified. The effect allowed us also to crop any objects or characters we didn't want in the clip offering some margin for error, otherwise we would have to re-film the clip. We tested Ken Burns on practise clips to make sure we could use the effect before we started to film our main task.