Preliminary Task Evaluation

Hi!

Creating this task was enjoyable and fun to make. Although we did have fun there were some downs to our task, however there were many strengths also: 

I think our main strength is teamwork and working as a group. We all had our own jobs and we all knew what we had to do. Because we are all friends and good friends, we all think in a similar way therefore when someone came up with an idea, someone else would add onto that idea and improve it. When thinking about what we would do as a group we all had the same idea. This means that we all had the same vision and goal for the task and what it would look like. As we had all these connecting ideas we also managed to use different shot types. We have included Shot Reverse Shot, 180 Degree Rule and Over the Shoulder shots, all used to effect. We used the Shot Reverse Shot along with 180 Degree Rule for the conversation in our final piece between Jack and Matt. These shot types and ideas happened because we worked as a team.

Another one of our main strengths on this task was that when creating the task, we did it in a professional manner and got the filming finished in one day or lesson. This doesn’t mean that the quality isn’t there and that the task was rushed. We were just quick and professional with our work. If someone was off task, another would tell them to stay focussed. If someone made a mistake when filming we could just get on with it and not dwell. Despite us being close friends and therefore have a tendency to go off topic and talk about irrelevant subjects, we remained focused, which is why it didn’t take long to film.

Our main weakness on this task I think was that we when filming and using the shot types we didn’t check them over once filmed and were so concentrated on the dialogue. We therefore broke the 180 degree rule once and also broke the continuum of the film. This means that the scene wasn’t the same all the way through when changing shots. For example Matt had his hands up when Jack was pointing the gun at him, but when we cut to the next angle he had his hands down. Furthermore, we couldn’t change or film the scene as we had left it too late and we only noticed once the task was made and had been edited. This leads onto our second weakness as a team. Planning;  

The other weakness of our preliminary task was the thought process in the planning. Although most of the planning went well, however with the braking of the rules and not leaving ourselves enough time not change and fix it was a huge downfall on our behalves. Also when filming we did not realise how much the environmental noises would effect this, with lessons going on down the same corridor we were filming in. When recording in some clips you could hear students in the background. Luckily with the editing we were able to mask over the noise with the music we used.

Overall, our preliminary task wasn’t a complete fail as we did make a piece which as a group we are happy with. Also, these mistakes we made will teach us and make us learn from them so we can improve for the future. This will give us an advantage as we will know what to do and what not to do when doing our opening movie scene. 

See you soon!