Evaluation Question 7

The journey from preliminary task to our final piece was somewhat of a long journey that involved a lot of learning in various areas, the areas I feel I have progressed the furthest in are camera work and editing. I feel that my progression is really demonstrated in the wide variety of camera shots and the continuity of the camera shots within our final piece. Below are stills from our final task that we feel exhibit some of the varied camera shots that we used these include high and low angle shots as well as mid shots, close ups and longer shots. When this is contrasted to the preliminary task, which only used a handful of shot variations you can see the personal experience I gained operating the camera and directing both pieces.
My personal experience gain also regarded the ways in which the camera can show plot points or show important information about the character  in the first screen shot below the high angle of the shot alludes to the fact that someone is watching and or spying on our first male character but it also shows the characters presence as he dominates the shot drawing attention and signifying power.
The second still was used more as an expostulation shot to really deliver the full levels of violence directly to the audience as research showed our target audience were fans of violence, like that of Quentin Tarantino movies.
The third still is a close up, during this process the use of close ups became very important to show how significant particular objects can be such as the door latch which shows the insecurity and the worry of the character, these are concepts that during the preliminary task we simply didn't think of.
During our preliminary task our comprehension of camera wasn't in depth enough we relied only on a handful of shot types, only mid to long with a few close ups at the end for the 'match on action'

The editing between the two pieces comes along massively, flaws in the flow of camera work resulted in choppy editing that required black outs with text to fix the continuity resulting in poor placement of credits like so:

The editing in our final piece flows well and consistency isn't an issue. While both both pieces use straight cuts Hitlist uses them to much greater effect. Our editing in Hitlist flows smoothly throughout the entire piece with each shot being almost seamless.