Preliminary Task Evaluation!

When creating our Preliminary task video we did well in sticking closely to tthe brief, including all the camera angles and shots and making sure we followed the 180 degree rule. Our video was 25 seconds long however we filmed 36 seconds worth of video but it was edited out. The camera we used to film our video was a Canon Camera and the technology we used to finish the video was an editing program called Final Cut Pro on the Apple Mac Computers. The camera was easy to use and produced good quality video and sound however when starting the editing, we had trouble using Final Cut Pro as we are not used to working with it. We found it difficult piecing the video clips together after we "Marked in/out" the clips, but after a while we got the hang of it and can now edit a video easily. We think our preliminary task went quite well and was fairly straight forward to film. We focused more on following the brief, making sure to include all camera angles etc, instead of creating an intresting story line. From this task we learnt how to use the camera, tripod and editing software which will help us with creating the rest of our portfolio!