Preliminary Task - Evaluation

The strengths of our preliminary task is that it covers everything that we needed to have on our task such as the four lines of dialogue, a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down in a chair opposite another character, a match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. I think that our strongest area was definitely editing as we managed to make the clip look very professional and the continuity was very good on the finished product, however that was due to the amount of the clips that we cut if we were to do it again then we would have strived to get the continuity more accurate. I also feel like we used the equipment well when filming to make our shots look smoother and look less shaky, examples of these pieces of equipment like a spider mount, tripod with a weighted anchor and a normal tripod.

The weaknesses of our preliminary task were that some of our shots that we recorded were out of focus, shaky or had some of the lens in the shots, therefore we had to reshoot some shots and wasted time trying to get each shot perfect for the editing stage if we could go back then we would try to make sure that everything is perfect to reduce the time wasted. If I could reshoot one scene again then I would reshoot the shot where it shows the feet of the insane man walking into the room, I would have also had a shot of Kai walking in through the other side of the door to make the continuity better when he comes into the room.

Unlike this task, in the proper piece of work that I am going to film for my thriller opening scene I am going to think more carefully about costume, background and diegetic sound as they were lacking in my preliminary task due to having to film my piece as soon as I got told about it so didn't have much time to get all of the things that we wanted prepared.

Preliminary Task - Finish Product

Preliminary Task - Filming

When filming the preliminary task we learnt a lot of skills that we could use when it comes to filming our final piece on our thriller opening scene, we had a lot of continuity errors when we filmed and we had to go back and reshoot some scenes to make sure that they flowed nicely and didn't look out of place. A couple of the shots that we filmed when holding the camera using our hands were a very shaky and we had to go back and re-film these scenes, the only difference was that we used the spider mount to rest the camera on when walking towards the table as a POV shot this made the shot stable and looked more professional. To film our over the shoulder shots to get our shot reverse shot scene we had to use a tripod with a weighted axel to film our shots as there were only two of us in the group, we had to place the tripod carefully around the room so we didn't break the 180 degree rule.

Preliminary Task - Editing

Kai and I edited our preliminary task on Adobe Premiere Pro, it was an easy program to use once you got used to it after some teaching of the controls from the teacher it was simple and we got our editing of the scenes done in no time at all. In our editing we added in effects in-between scenes to create a smoother flowing interchange so it wasn't all amateurish quick cuts, however we did include some quick cuts as this can add more tension to a scene as it makes the pace of the scene increases. To make the shots flow nicely to create a good scene we made cuts to the shots we had filmed, this was to make our continuity better and to make sure our scenes didn't have any things in it that looked bad or that we didn't want such as us standing still or talking out of shot. We also included back ground music in the end credits where 'Insanity.' comes up to create tension as the music is quite quiet and relaxing which when in contrast with the scenes themselves creates and eerie and mysterious feel about as to what is going to happen next.

Preliminary Task - Dialogue

Walking guy - Kai Gilchrist

Sitting man - Guy Nicholson
Camera man - Kai Gilchrist, Guy Nicholson

-Hello, how are after your little ermmm….episode

-I’m fine I don’t know what really happened that night

-It’s okay that is why we're here, to help you to help yourself

-To help myself?!? What do you think I am insane!!!!!

-Actually you are (hands sheet)

Preliminary task - Storyboard

This was the storyboard that we designed to illustrate what we wanted the outcome to be for our preliminary task, we included camera angles, details on how we wanted the camera shots to be and if there was anything that was going to move in the shot then we put what direction it was going to move. Even though the storyboard was not well drawn when considering the character costumes and aspects of their look, we included every prop that we wanted in the task in the story board from the insert of the you are insane sheet to the tables and chairs we have used.