Preliminary Task Evaluation

Our short film showed examples of continuity editing throughout. There was a clear sense of beginning middle and end overall and in each scene. We used techniques such as the 180 degree rule throughout to increase the continuity of the film, we thought this would be quite an easy obvious thing to do but when we changed location or started a new scene we found out that we had accidently filmed it the wrong way round and by looking at this realised the importance of the technique because when we looked at it, it was confusing even for us so we had to refilm those shots.

I think we used shot reverse shot well, we had the shot with an over the shoulder shot and then used a close up for the reverse to show the emotions as this is the shot out of the three that would get the most reaction, then we went back to over the shoulder for the final shot. we used this sequence of camera angles for our shot reverse shots because it helped set the scene and location, and by going back to the over the shoulder shot it helped maintain the continuity.

Our match on action worked well because it was very continuous the the quick transition from both cameras made the movement look very continuous. We showed match on action twice, both were whn someone was walking through a door. By using this we used more continuity editing meaning the two shots linked together almost seamlessly and go almost unnoticed by the audience. If we didn't use this the scne would look a bit empty and it could cause confusion as the audience wouldn't know where the scene was taking place.

I think our group worked well together. In the planning stage we split into two groups of two. One group worked on the script and thought about the overall story line and camera angles we would use. The other group created the story board and also looked at what props and equipment we would need so we could have them before we started filming. we then came together and made any changes we thought needed to be made as a group. I think we could have improved by managing our time better. We left it quite late to get our actors and ended up having to use two members of our group meaning they couldn't be too involved in the filming side of it so when we next do filming I'll make sure we definitely have our actors ready so everyone had a fair chance at filming, directing and editing.

This is the story board we followed whilst filming our prelimenary task. Once we decided what our story would be we drew out how we wanted each shot or scene to look then underneath how we wanted it to look, what would happen in that section of film and what camera angles we wanted. We did it on post it notes because it gave us the option to swap things around if we decided some things didn't look right when filming.

Equipment

When we filmed outside for the first part of our filming it was quite a windy day so after looking at the first few takes we weren't happy with the sound quality as the wind made it hard to hear the dialogue so we went through the settings and found the wind reduction setting and once we turned that on the sound got better and so did the general quality.

During the running takes we thought about using the dolly so we could track the movement instead of having to have a static camera but after testing it we realised the ground wasn't flat enough to do so because it was so bumpy it didn't look very good and anything we gained by using the tracking shot would be lost from the bumpiness of the shot so using the tripod and a static shot made the running shots look more proffessional and we also thought by having Jordan running back and forth would give a bit of a comic twist that we were aiming for with our film.

Our Prelimenary task Video

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Ideas for preliminary task

In our group we talked about different genres of film we wanted to do and then we would decide how to include the different criteria. At first we thought about doing a mock gangsters piece but then thought we would have to have two gangs so we would have to have alot of people taking part and also it is a short piece so we probably wouldn't be able to establish a story in the couple of minutes we had.

We decided we would do a mock western because we would only need a small cast and from the westerns we had seen before as a group we were confident we would be able to include all the camera angles requested from us.

We will make sure we maintain the 180 degree rule throughout our piece. We have a couple of convorsations between our three different characters each time using shot reverse shot to show each characters emotions, some of these convorsations are had when the characters are sitting down and some when they are standing. we have match on action in our piece twice. once when the villian walks through with the woman and once when the hero comes to save her. each time someone walks through the door it will look different as they both have different purposes.

AS media

My name is Olivia Saltmarsh and this is the start of my AS media coursework.