Preliminary Task - Evaluation
Your evaluation needs to include the following:
Your preliminary exercise video embedded from YouTube.
Clear reference to the preliminary exercise brief, your planning process, how your script/storyboard/shot list helped create the final product and what you would do differently next time in terms of pre-production.
Detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of your film. This is a good opportunity to demonstrate your close-textual analysis skills - breaking down the clip shot-by-shot to discuss the impact on the audience.
Confident use of media language, particularly film language, showing clear understanding of the key concepts of Media Studies (MIGRAIN)
The brief for the preliminary exercise was to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.
This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
The planning process for this was first to construct a storyboard, script and shot list which was all made towards the end product. As a group (Sophie, Daniel and I) we were able to split these tasks between each other therefore leading me to be in charge of the narrative and script, Sophie being in charge of the shotlist and storyboard and Daniel focusing on editing when the production of the video was finished. This allowed us to be focused on particular things full heartedly instead of having the strain on one particular person and also made sure that we were all part of the production. After the script and shotlist were produced, we notified each-other so that each could have a general idea of how the task would be produced which lead to no confusion on Friday meaning that we would all be able to go ahead and film. This was a beneficial planning process as this made us have a very clear understanding of the production of the video.
There were multiple strengths and weaknesses in this video, a few strengths was that there was a good narrative, camera movement, sound effects and music made the video interesting and held suspense throughout the video. Also, the things like good match on action, dialogue, lighting and action shots contributed to the strengths of the video as this made our video have a clear understanding of what is happening. This made our video look realistic and gave the video interest. However, there were a few weaknesses like the focus of the camera at the point of my face and also where the wallet is picked up. The focus here was on the radiator which could make it seem like there was a storyline based around it. Also, we could have filmed a bit more to give the video a more of a continuous film to make it seem more realistic and give it a sense of edge. In addition to this, the push into the room unintentionally gave the video humour which automatically made the audience not take the video that serious and therefore not reaching the aim of the video. These things however is something that will be focused on in the real production so that these mistakes are not made which would therefore give the video more professionalism.
There were multiple strengths and weaknesses in this video, a few strengths was that there was a good narrative, camera movement, sound effects and music made the video interesting and held suspense throughout the video. Also, the things like good match on action, dialogue, lighting and action shots contributed to the strengths of the video as this made our video have a clear understanding of what is happening. This made our video look realistic and gave the video interest. However, there were a few weaknesses like the focus of the camera at the point of my face and also where the wallet is picked up. The focus here was on the radiator which could make it seem like there was a storyline based around it. Also, we could have filmed a bit more to give the video a more of a continuous film to make it seem more realistic and give it a sense of edge. In addition to this, the push into the room unintentionally gave the video humour which automatically made the audience not take the video that serious and therefore not reaching the aim of the video. These things however is something that will be focused on in the real production so that these mistakes are not made which would therefore give the video more professionalism.
