Preliminary task evaluation

Preliminary task evaluation

The preliminary task included me Barbara and Michael in the film, and Ausrine operating the camera, I would also operate the boom mic in the scenes i was not in.  For our preliminary task, we wrote up a short story, Michael's character needed to collect something of my character. Although the story was not the main focus of the preliminary task i think it would of been more engaging to the audience if our story had more development. Because we did not have a complex story it meant that the preliminary task was also short.

However I think our camera work in the preliminary task was good. We had an eye-line match with Michael's character and the clock, we did this by zooming in on Michaels eyes, then zooming in on the clock. We had a match on action when Michael walked through the door, this was done by filming Michael until he had turned the handle, we then went on the other side of the door to film him opening it. We edited both these scenes together so it seemed like the action was continuos. We also used low angles and over the shoulder when my character was talking to Michael. The conversation flowed well because we did not break the 180 degrees rule, this is the rule that the camera must not go over 180 degrees of the characters, so that the position of the characters do not change. We also used shot reverse shot on whoever was talking, so that we could see what the character would see, and made the conversation seem more natural.

Overall I think our preliminary task went well, we used all the shots from the list in a way that I think was effective. However the shortness of the preliminary task meant that we didn't have enough time to use other shots that weren't on the list.