Media Evaluation: Enquiry Question 6 & 7

1. What have I learnt?
I have learnt how to use various different technologies, shown clearly through my
evaluation; using various different sites and programs to do all of the questions asked. I
have also learnt how to edit, and edit well; through using premiere pro, the best technology
to use for (beginner) editors as it is fairly simple but has a wide range of functions and
features to explore and use. We did use after effects to attempt a still shot, but figured it
was not that useful and didn’t use it again as it was not a relevant program for what we
wanted. We also made our music through mixcraft, a program that we saw was best fit to
make our soundtracks as that is it sole purpose; to make music and soundtracks. Mixcraft
was hard to use to begin with but then after a long time of practicing we could use it very
well and was also enjoyable to use, as you were making your own soundtrack. We learnt
how to use the new technology through playing around with it (basic trial and error); we
used what we thought looked/sounded good. We also learnt things from tutorial videos
done by different people.
From our preliminary task we knew that a mistake we made within it was time planning; the
video was filmed and edited all last minute as the original copy was not good enough so we
knew that for our main task we had to plan it all correctly and filmearly to ensure that any
changes that needed doing/adding could be done in time. We also didn’t plan the film
correctly, we didn’t like the storyline of the preliminary piece so we ended up changing it
halfway through which made it harder to film in time. To stop the same happening again we
made sure we would stick by the storyline, but we also made the story good from the start
so we knew we wouldn’t have any second thoughts.
Planning and mainly storyboarding was key for us and we became much better at it,
because as previously mentioned we needed to ensure the story was good so that the
filming was made easier as we had a schedule designed around the story board on what we
needed to film. The creative decision making went hand in hand with camerawork and
therefore improved as we went along as we did some research into films and looked at
what camera shots were used at different points. The creative decision making was the way
we set the shot up and the camerawork was how the camera was placed so they both
improved together, and by the end I think we had mastered it- a personal favourite of mine
is this shot:

2. My editing techniques have improved drastically from doing the main task as we knew that
our main problem from filming the preliminary task was making it all fit together correctly,
so our continuity had to be perfect to make the film look good and flow.