Preliminary exercise task

Evaluation task

For our preliminary task, we had to film and edit a person opening a door, walking across the room and conversing with another person. It also needed to contain match on action, a shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

Our task feedback

WWW:-

We stuck to the brief, and our shots and the 180 degree rule were delivered well. Vijay filmed Mariam and I very well and stuck to the 180 degree rule whilst others failed. We used the story board to help us know what shots and what how we wanted preform the shots, it also added a fluency to are filming causing us to do the majority if our filming in a double lesson, whether that was right or wrong, it was done.

EBI:-

Our transition lacked fluency and any real emphasis, as the transition made it look like it was a very long conversation that lasted hours or even days! Also, our planning was good, but we didn't utilise it to the best of ability causing a lot of spontaneous actions and moves. Looking back on our film in class showed me that some of the shots were out of focus which made our film look quite amateur. The camera movement also portrayed that. Also next time in my pre-production task we need to delegate role as there was a little bit of confusion in who needed to do what and when they needed to do it.

Our film starts off with me walking towards the door and a close up of my shoes there was then match on action which was an extreme close up of my hand on the door opening it. I then was filmed walking towards Mariam with the camera behind me, which made it an over the shoulder shot. There was then an over the shoulder shot from Mariam's shoulder looking at me, this automatically showed the audience that we knew each other and we may be conversing. We hen started conversing and with the 180 degree rule, on paper, everything should have went to plan, but practically, it didn't because of the transitions in our conversation.

Once the conversation was terminated, Mariam was then filmed leaving the room and moving further and further away from the camera which implied that the scene had ended. The editing was quite long as we were cutting a lot of unnecessary shots and scene.

I believe the audience targeted for this production was youth, hence the setting being in a school also the surrounding noise conveyed that.

Overall, I believe our production was good, but it just needed a little more thought going into the filming and editing and a bit more organisation but on the whole it was a good experience and filming and editing was a joy to do and will help me in many more task to come. Also the feedback I got will cause me to take heed on it and try to improve on further task.