Preliminary Film Task Evaluation

1. For my film task I worked with Luke, and we both had an equal share of videoing and directing.
2. We planned our sequence using a storyboard of the different shots we were going to use. We also created a short script of dialogue. We had seen some other students work of when they had done the same project and we didn't need much inspiration as it was quite a narrow brief.
3. For this task we used a recording camera from the school's library and we used a tripod to film our shots from different heights and angles etc.
4. When we were shooting our sequence we had to take into account the continuity of our shots so we had to make sure that the actors were in the same positions if we re shot the scene. One factor that we did not include was the 180 degree line, during the conversation between the characters. In editing we had to make sure that our shots flowed into each other and that we didn't have any parts that were out of step with the rest of it. We had to re record one of the actors sitting back down in the chair and we realised we had cut that part and it was evident when we played it back.
5. I think our sequence was quite successful except for the 180 degree line which you can see but I don't think it changed our sequence too dramatically. I think we had good continuity between our shots and it flowed quite well. If I did it again I would make sure that I had taken the 180 degree line into account and made sure I did at least two shots of each scene.
6. From completing this task I have learnt how to create a good link between our shots and how to edit our sequence to make sure that each scene works well with the other.