Preliminary task evaluation

Media Prelim Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-SRml-sk3s&feature=youtu.be

For our preliminary task we had to film and edit a sequence to show a person entering a room and speaking to someone else. The task should demonstrate:

·        The 180 degree rule

·        Match on action

·        Shot reverse shot

·        Continuity

This is a shot from the opening scenes of our task, I have chosen this shot because of the lighting, as you can see we have turned off the lights and let the natural light flood in, this creates a sense of mystery as the identity of the person is hidden to the audience, in the scenes following this it changes from a well lit room back to this dark corridor, we decided to include this as we could use a variety of shots including extreme long shots and close ups.

This is a close up of the door handle and later following this shot the door is opened, for this shot we used a close up, in the following shot we cut to a shot of me in the office trying to open the cabinets, we included this shot to create tension as the situation is getting more and more tense as the figure approaches.

 

This is the last shot we filmed and although you may not be able to tell from this still this shot is a freeze frame, this shot is a mid shot and we included it to show and also a two shot as there is two people being filmed, this shot creates a relaxed atmosphere as everything is right again and the two characters are sorting out what happened.  

 

 I feel our camera work was pretty good considering it was our first time filming, I feel that we used a good range of shot which included close ups, long shots and over the shoulder shots, I feel that we could have used a wider range of shots in some parts of the of the film to really show of what we could do, I feel that the composition of our film was good because we included all the things we wanted to in the shots also the same with the framing as we managed to include everything that was needed to show what we wanted everyone to see.

I feel that the camera movement wasn’t as good as it could have been but I feel that it may have been down to inexperience, and example of this would been when I dropped they keys on the floor, we could only see from my shoulders down plus we didn’t follow the keys actually falling so the full effect wasn’t created, we didn’t really use any different camera shots as we didn’t know which parts of the film to incorporate them, as our camera was on a tripod throughout filming I would like to say that all our shots are quite stable the only thing I could say would be when moving the camera from side to side it may not have been as smooth as it could have been.   

I feel that the editing went very well and I think we also stuck to 180 degree rule throughout our film, we also tried to include match on action, we attempted shot reverse shot and even though we managed it I do feel that we could have maybe managed to do it a bit better than we did, we included titles on some of our shots, but I feel we could of added them in a better place (E.G at the end of the film instead off shots in the film), we included two transitions (both fade to black) and we also added a freeze frame all of these are shown at the end of the film.

 

We used all natural lighting in our film; I feel this is most effective in the opening shots of the film as it switches from dark to light several times we got the idea from the opening to Skyfall as it starts of blurred and then gradually comes into focus, much like our film.

I have learnt many skills from this task such as how to achieve different things with the camera such as shots and angles and also how to edit, I also learnt how to plan out shots using a shot list, this will help us with our thriller as we will be able to plan it out thoroughly so we don’t miss anything out.

If I could improve anything I think it would be the shots that include talking as there are bits that we missed out and silly little mistakes that we could have easily avoided