Self Evaluation

At the start of this Media Studies course I knew a fair amount about the filming process from studying media previously in years 10 and 11. Since then I have learnt a lot more about camera work, editing, sound and mise-en-scene. So far this year I have learnt more vocabulary for each section. Camera work for example; master shot, canted angle, rule of thirds, depth of field, deep and shallow focus and how to use focus pulls. These camera techniques have helped us in our film to give us more shots with variety. I have learnt vocabulary in editing such as; graphic match, match on action (which was one factor we had to include in our film), cutaway. Again these techniques helped us when we did our editing process.

In GCSE we got to make a short opening to a film so we had already learnt some techniques when filming and editing. We had learnt about continuity so when making our film we had to make sure the actors were kept in the same place otherwise it would show up as a jump cut when editing. Also we had to make sure we filmed more shots than we needed otherwise we may have had to film on another day when actors might be wearing different clothes or we hadn't got the same props we used in a different shot.

By learning these different techniques it helped our film because I had a better understanding of how to use different camera shots, editing process, mise-en-scene and sound.