James's Evaluation

Media Nationals Unit 3 Level 2 Evaluation

James Shadbolt 11.4


My strengths in Unit 3 were filming and graphics, i feel comfortable in doing both. I enjoyed creating different graphics for the video as i enjoy using Photoshop. During the production of the video I felt that i was much stronger during the initial filming stages as i had more input, but i felt like I had little say in the editing part, which was a weakness of the group, but that being said i think that i help with editing  by providing graphics for the video, but after i told the group i want more input, i had a good say on what being done with the editing. Another weakness is that i arrived late and put the shoot back 10 minutes and some days it was hard for some group members to attend. A weakness of the team is finding a good camera position and getting a good shot. I also had difficulties communicating with Ollie and Ken on when to start recording which took up about 10 minutes per shoot, which made the overall shooting time longer. On the first day of shooting Ken fell of and put the shoot back by 3 and a half week because injuries to his back.Also the group had distractions and interferences from other trail users and friends that live nearby that were on the hill while filming, this also delayed the filming process, because of having to reshoot certain parts of the trail.

Our finished product was a video promoting mounting biking trails on grinshill. The video we produced is good as it looks like a high quality, professional video. We used different shots such as close ups, mid shots and long distance shots. I did research into different camera positions by looking at different mounting biking videos. I learnt that different shots look good for different parts of the production. As a group we all planned out a production schedule on what we would do on each day and how long we would spend shooting. We all did a little bit of filming but I personally do the most as i wasn't riding in the production, and filming was is one of my strengths. In my group Ken did most the editing with Ollie and myself having a say in what he does and how the edit looks overall. In the production we used a variety of different shots such as close ups, mid shots and long distance shots to get our video looking professional, and in the editing we also used POV (point of view) which was filmed using a chest mounted camera on the rider, this gave the our video a professional feel. You are able to see where the rider is going due to putting in the POV shots. They were edited in the video so the viewer can see what the rider is seeing, and we also have a rider pop out the screen and say what trail they are doing and there name. Overall i think the editing went well on our video and we have produced a next to professional level video.

The techniques we used when filming where continuity editing, this is when you shot you filmed before flows with the next shot. This suggests that the trail has a start and an end. We added a black and white section while editing to make the shot more noticeable. We also added a smaller POV (point of view) shot in the bottom left corner of the frame to show the viewer what the rider is seeing and to give the video a sense of speed, and to show what terrain he is riding on. We also took screenshots of the video, put them into photoshop and cut our the rider and then edited them back into the video. They then came out the of the screen in a freeze frame along the the rider name, e.g. Ollie or Ken or the name of the trail. In the print stage i made a title for our video in Photoshop and then Ken placed it into the video.

We used copyright of some logos and the equipment like the bikes we were riding and the clothes we were wearing. We asked a local counselor for permission to use the hill in our video and we also filled out a risk assessment. The video was completely was ours. This didn’t really effect the video but, If were to shoot the video again we would have take these things into consideration.