Peliminary Task Evaluation

Over all our film worked well. However, the continuity was not of a very good quality. Some parts of our film did not flow very well, objects filmed in one scene did not appear in another. For example, during the establishing shot we had a table full of people, and then when the film goes to the next scene the people sitting at the table are gone. Also there is a point were one of the actors is in a shot which they shouldn’t be, and in the next shot they have moved. Other than these mistakes the continuity shown in our film is good.

I think we demonstrated very good shot reverse shot in our film. This is shown in the conversation section, where as one actor is talking the camera is on them, and when the other actor makes a response, the camera shot goes to them. We did this by setting up two cameras and editing the clips.

Our group worked very well together during the filming of the video, everyone took part and we shared turns of doing the actual filming. As it took several takes everyone in the group got at least one. However I think the work done during the editing stage could have been shared more efficiently.

If we were to re make or do this piece again, we would ensure that continuity was a lot better, so that the film ran more smoothly. Also, we could improve on the mise en scene, by having better props, and a better setting for the filming.

I think our film was planned very well, before we started we had a script, which we produced a storyboard from. Whilst doing the filming we stuck to the ideas on the story boards we created.

The transitions we used in our film worked very well, we used them to move between clips, but only the clips which had a change of scene. For example between the establishing shot and then the door scene. We did not use transitions during the conversation shot reverse shot as we thought it worked well as it was.

From doing this exercise I learnt the basics of suing the editing program, I had never used it before so I learnt quite a lot. It was complicated but not too hard to pick up, there are still things to learn about but things that were not required to make this film.