I believe that our camera work could have been improved whilst filming this video, as at times, such as 0:20, the camera is off-angle and also shows a lot of the outside area. The last shot is done with a crash zoom, which I think works well with the plot line, however I don't believe is a convention often used in soaps.
We did not have to input our own thoughts about the angles of the shots as they were already in place due to the comic strip, however we did have to move the camera around the screen to get all the information on screen.
I think we could have found a more appropriate non-diegetic score for the introduction even though I do believe that it goes with the title of the soap: Suburbs. The diegetic sound was filmed separately to the visual, and then we removed the visual from the speech shots, and overlapped it to the visual we wanted. Unfortunately, this lead to gaps in the background noise (from when we filmed the speech) that had to be put in when editing.
At the end of our clip, we used a cliff-hanger. I think this works well because the clip is supposed to be a "previously on" section, to be followed by the rest of the programme. This is also a commonly used soap convention.
In post production we inserted a label on the bottom of the clip saying "previously on... the suburbs." I think that the actual label could have been more visually relevant, as I don't think it quite fits.
As far as the actual technologies used, I learned a lot about Adobe Premier Elements 8, which I have never used before. I learned how to remove different parts of a certain shot, for example removing the audio clip that is over a shot and replacing it with an audio clip that has had its video removed.
Next time, I will take more care in aligning my shots and also will film my speech in a quieter environment so that there is no annoying buzz in the background.
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