Evaluating preliminary task - George Bazley
- 1. Evaluating preliminary task Section 1: Filming Process Within our group we had two designated camera men (Charlie and Tom) they both worked smoothly together and gave each other feedback if they believed a shot could be done differently to improve it. All of our filming was done in two takes over twos day, we were not rushed for time to collect the shots we required. Due to the location of where we were film being a school changing room,the amount of peoples bags within the changing room would change , if we were to film one shot without the bags or with the bags the consistency of the Mise en scene would be ruined so as a group we decided to include the bags to the Mise en scene of our Preliminary task. The filming process did suffer some setbacks on the first day as the camera was full and had no spare memory space. We did lose some valuable time on the first shoot making space on the camera but it did not hinder us to much in completing everything we needed to do in that day. The sound quality as we shot a long shot in a narrow hall way (at 0.14 seconds on the video ) the microphone on the camera was too far away from the actor (me) to pick up what was being said clearly, the sound was also distorted and echoed due to where the shot was shot, the group was contemplating re-recording the audio at a later date but we wanted the diegetic speech as recorded by the camera. What I have learned moving forward for the main task is that our time management as a group was successful and we were not falling behind shooting our piece however there are a few improvements to be made; avoid losing time in the filing process by clearing memory on the camera and picking an appropriate location for filming with consistent sound quality.
- 2. Section 2 : Meeting the brief We successfully filmed and edited 7 out of 9 our shots we had story boarded to film and edit one was dropped and sadly one was lost in the upload to Youtube. These shots were tailored to meet the brief to fit within our story line. I believe we mainly reached the targets set for the brief bar the one already addressed above and the lack of shot/reverse shot, all the shots were clear to see as shown above . ‘character opens door’ 0:07 seconds ‘character crosses room’ 0:09 seconds At this point we did not meet the breif. ‘sits down in chair opposite another character’ we do not see the character sitting down. ‘exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue’ 0:14 seconds ‘match on action’ 0:08 seconds
- 3. Section 3: technical skills Our use of titles was basic and faded in then faded out again this was edited in, in four different scenes. They including the names of all the people who helped produce our piece, I believe we should have included a ‘title’ to our piece and edited it into the start of the piece. The sound quality of the piece was poor and inconsistent at points we had zero sound then we have a moment of speech, I believe to level out the incontinency of the sound, a non- diegetic sound track behind the video would have improved the piece. For the future I believe we could spend longer looking for an appropriate filming location because the lighting was poor (for example 0:02 seconds) also the mise on scene of the sports hall and changing room didn’t fit the atmosphere we were trying to create (an erer . I believe the camera men worked well together and produced some smooth shots with a variety of low angles (0:09 seconds) , high angles (0:08 seconds ) and different shot lengths successfully. The editing process brought the whole piece together, we managed to create a CCTV camera visual effect within primer pro and this was a highlight of the piece. The transition of each shot was smooth and simple with most shots running into the next we used one fade from black at (0:11 seconds) .