What have I learnt through the whole proccess

Pre Production Stage
As a team, we learnt just how important this stage is, not only for organizing everything, but also when filming. Without the amount of planning and hard work we put into this stage, we wouldn't have got the standards we wanted and achieved on the day of filming. I have also learnt that it is vital to work as a team in this stage, making sure if you have completed anything on your own that you check back with other members of the team t make sure they are happy with it as well, like we did with our script, this may take more time than expected but I have learnt that it makes a big difference in the long run. Our pre production packs also made a huge difference to production and editing stage of the task, they made it possible to run as smoothly as possible and this wouldn't have happened if we hadn't put as much effort in carefully planning everything.

Production Stage
We used everything from our pre production stage to carry this out, making sure we followed it exactly so that we didn't miss anything out. We made sure when doing pre production that we included everything for the production stage even down to what kind of focus we wanted the tools to be in our production stage, so when it came to it we only had to look at it and who knew exactly what we were doing at each step. I learnt a lot from this stage, making sure i listened to everyone in the team with their ideas. Also with the actors, just in case they were unsure of what was happening, I could give them some direction as I had wrote the script and knew what we were looking for with each scene. This gave us the confidence to know that we had achieved a very good standard of film footage, and we were ready to go straight into the next stage of the task.

Post Production Stage
This Stage helped me develop my skills further from what i had learnt from our Preliminary Task. Many of the skills i had learnt from the Preliminary task were basic, and so this stage help me understand the software more as i was doing more cuts, adding in music and making sure it fitted, we also added in tittles which increased both my knowledge and my skills in this area. I was able to make daring changes and was able to make more decisions about which shot fitted best, I was also able to go back if i didn't like a cut as i was getting more confident with the software.
One piece of software that i hadn't used in the preliminary task was colour grading. This allows you to transfer you piece from Final Cut Pro onto the colour grading software on the Apple Mac's and change the main colours in your film giving it a different feel and effect. Due to our film being in the horror genre, we wanted more colder colours, therefore we added more blue and dull tones to give it this feel. This also made other colours stand out a lot more, such as the red from the blood. It gave it a much deeper red colour which made it look more realistic unlike the pink red colour the fake blood had. We decided that we would colour grade our film once it was finished as this gave us time to sort out each scene instead of having to keep going back each time to colour grade a scene at a time. Once we were happy with the colours we had for one scene, the software allows you to save that and add it to every scene so that you don't get different colours each time and so that we had continuity throughout. This was an important skill we learnt in the stage as it gave the overall feel a more cinematic look instead of a piece filmed at home. I learnt a lot from this stage, i learnt new skills which will help with future task, i have also become more confident in the software and how to use it more effectively.


After completing all three stages of our main task, i am pleased with what we have achieved. I now feel the majority of the questions we asked at the end of our Preliminary task i can answer (Shown Below). Such as 'How do you colour grade', from completing this task i feel as though i can now answer this question, as we did decided to colour grade our final cut of our film to give it the cold look we were going for. Also i can now answer 'How do i add music onto Final Cut Pro' as we also did this several times throughout our cuts to make sure it sounded better each time.


Questions form after Preliminary task
How do i colour grade?
how do I add music onto Final Cut Pro?
How to create a voice over on Final Cut Pro?
What is the main Production of a film?
how do you get special effects on final cut pro?
how to get a split screen effect on Final Cut Pro?
how to make a realistic script?