Convocation task evaluation
- 1. Convocation task evaluation What went well? Personally, I think that the actual filming of my piece went well, I believe this because wewere able to use a lot of different shot types within our piece. Using different shot types, I felt was effective becauseit meant that it gavethe film variety and someshots worked better for what we were trying to achieve. For example, when we were filming walking through the main doors and up to the door that would havebeen used as our office door, we decided that a close up of my feet would be best in this instance, as well as also having a long shot of myself walking and a mid-shotfrom behind. Having this variety I feel, made it more interesting to watch, rather than simply justa long shot of myself walking down the hallway. I also think that the shot/ reverseshotworked well as we managed to keep to the 180 degree rule which I feel, looked really effective when watching it back as it helped to fully convey the convocation that we were trying to portray. What didn’t go well? Personally, I don’tfeel as though my editing went as well as I would haveliked it to in some respects, in someinstances it looks very sharp however, in some cases I would have liked to havechanged certain bits. For example, one of my clips carries on longer than I would haveliked it to and now I have watched that back I can see that. Ithas some excess time that does not actually need to be in the clip. This tells me that, I should have clipped this clip more than I did to make it more fluid. What would you changeif you could go back and startagain? If I could start my film again, firstly, to contextualise my piece more, I would have the actors dressed in costume. For example, office attire. Secondly, I would like to add music and sound effects to my piece as I feel it would have looked slightly less basic and possibly add tension to parts of the film that could have been tense in areas. For example, walking down the hallway, here, would have been a good opportunity to possibly add sometense music to the piece to create a tenser atmosphere. Walking down the hallway into the interview roomhere, may also have potentially been a good opportunity to add sound effects like a loud heartbeat..
- 2. What have you learnt for next time? Next time, I would like to experiment more with using different effects. I have also learnt for next time to plan where I am going to film my film as I feel that we could havepotentially done this in a quieter area wherethere was slightly less disruption. The organisation of the classroomthatwe filmed in could have possibly been laid out slightly differently as we had trouble with the lighting due to a window however, wehad already started filming beforerealising it would be a problem when the camera was facing one of the actors sitting in frontof the window. Therefore, wecould not close the blind as we had already started filming with the blind up, so could only close its slightly which did effect the lighting. Ideally, weshould have changed the layout of the classroomso that the table was not in front of the window.