Evaluation 7

I'm Our preliminary task was a huge introduction in to film making for us. None of the three members in our team had done any form of filming prior to A-levels so we had to learn quick. When it came to filming after our planning and brain storming I myself had the most experience due to my interest in photography. We used my Canon 1100D and tested out multiple angles. This was successful after a short while as we got the hang of framing and where we were in the frame. 

Our oreliminary task included many professional camera shots like match on action, 180 degree and shot reverse shot. This was very good as it deemed the product well made. However, when it came to sound we failed. We did not have any purposefully includes dialog nor music. This made it very poor and left it at a moderate level. 

The finished product, therefore, was less impressive than we would have liked. We used our knowledge of mistakes in our second film to ensure it was of a higher quality. We believe that we were successful in a way as we then had a knowledge of what we did well and not so well to improve drastically. 

By using this information you can clearly see how the preliminary task aided our skills hugely. 

For example:

The first image is taken from our actual film. The framing of the two characters is much better than in the second screenshot, from our preliminary. We learned quickly after this how to effectively frame characters and keep the camera on them. We also improved our match on action and over the shoulder shot here:

As you can see all four of our characters can be seen so nothing is missed. We have also situated key lines in the frame on the rule of thirds grid to provide a more aesthetically pleasing picture.

All in all doing the preliminary task helped hugely and I would definitely recommend it to anyone doing this task in the future if the are coming from the same inexperienced position as us.