Preliminary Task Evaluation

Preliminary Task Evaluation

Continuity task involving filming and editing 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.

Continuity is the idea of a continuous scene or concept where everything must be correct. For instance clothing, and location must not change throughout the scene to create a effective continuous scene.

Match on Action is a cut to another camera to show the important object in that particular scene.

Shot/Reverse Shot is a shot with is mostly used when dialogue is used. Most of the time this shot is an over the shoulder shot.

180-degree rule is a rule in filming. Imagine an imaginary line through the middle of the scene. If you cross the line then you change the viewers perspective on the scene completely.

Pre-Production

At the start of pre-production we sat down as a group and spoke to see i we had any similar ideas. We seemed to know as a group where we were going with this task.  We knew what we wanted to happen. We had the range of shots that we wanted. These were the long shot, establishing shot, mid shot and the POV(point of view) shot. We knew from the start who our cast would be and we knew who would be waiting and who would be walking into the school.  We also knew what our knock knock joke would be be. We then had to write down the first ideas. We did this on an A3 sheet. To the right you can see the picture where i am holding the sheet. 

 
We then had to do a storyboard so we knew where each one of the scenes that we were doing. We had 20 in total. It also gives you a lot of information that you can also use in the clips that you record. This was very useful. This is because we then knew why we needed to do for every shot. These were then posted on to the blog as well in  different post. Here is an example of one. Once we felt that we had done and we had a good layout. 

Overall, having a pre-production where we could right down our initial thoughts. We could also right down all of the different techniques that we had. This is shown in the picture to the left.

 Production

We filmed our Task on an IPad. This made the audio really bad. You can get around this by putting the audio up on the editing software. Some of the audio on this was so bad. Most of the audio that we had we had to get rid of completely. Also during filming we could see some reflections of the team as we were filming. This could not be helped. The day that we decided to film was really windy. This was a really bad idea and if we had the option we would have filmed on another day.
On the right you can see a picture of one of our POV shots. This is what i meant about having shadows on the ground.  You can also see the IPad in the picture and this is also a part that we didn't want in the presentation. 




Post Production 


In this stage we used the clips and cut them down to the right size. We then put the clips into iMovie. This is shown in the picture below. 

 

Once the clips were in iMovie i dragged the clips into iMovie and cut the clips down to the size i wanted.

 

Once the footage was in the timeline i then edited it down to size by simply dragging the edge of the clip down to the size i wanted.

You could then add audio to the Movie if you wanted to. The green boxes on the picture below are the audio files.

Evaluation

Here  is The Joke as a final product. In my opinion i did pretty well for a first task. We thought of some good ideas from the start but i didnt know how they would end out. We only encountered a couple of issues.

The first problem that i found was the clips could have been wrong. We should have filmed the clips more than once from the start. One problem that i also found was the panning shot wasnt very good. This is due to the camera man having a shaky hand. Another example would be when filming a P.O.V shot of our actor walking into the main building you can see the shadow of the camera, which could be prevented if we took more time to sort it out.

Overall, i felt that the task was an overall success. The planning and filming of this was all round good. Next time there would be a few things that i would change. This was good for my first try.