Evaluation on preliminary task by Harim, Dennis & Zaman

What preparation was undertaken before the preliminary task?

Firstly we had to make a decision what our main theme was gone be, for example we made a short clip of a suspense theme as we ended it in a cliff-hanger as know one knew what was actually in the document, this was one of the first steps we had to take before we could go to the next step, then we had to think of a location of where would be the most convenient and convincing place for us to be able to interact with our viewers, this is why we used room 15 as it had the sort of vide be was looking for, such as a dimmed light kind of effect which went with the theme we where going for.
Finally once we had find out what kind of theme we where going for & where we was going to shoot it, we needed to find out which one of us where going to be the main characters and what roles we would play, as myself and Denis became the main characters all that was left to be done was to draw up the story boards and plan each scene out, this was all the preparation needed to be done, as all equipment was provided to us, so now we was ready to shoot out movie clip.

Where did we shoot?

We shot in the business studies room, which seemed like the perfect location for us, as we needed a room which had the right atmosphere for us as it was light dimmed with beams of light coming through the blinds which in a way makes it feel like a the kind of environment where people would have a serious conversation about life changing decisions such as lending big sums of money or drug deals for example and as we had a suspense theme going on with a thug kind of vide, this room seemed like the perfect location, we all agreed on this as a group.

What equipment have you used?

Their was two main pieces of equipment we used, one was the video camera which was provided to us by Mr Titheridge & the other main one was the document that we used which was basically the core of our production, as the whole scene built up to the viewing of the folder by myself, this was the main equipment used by us, however we also needed to use the Apple laptops provided to us also by Mr Titheridge to upload our movie and edit it and also add background music if we wish to, these where the main pieces of equipment we used for the production of our video.

What went well?

As this was our first ever short movie clip we had to make without and help in the actual production, we actual production itself went really well as nun of us have got any experience of how to actually edit movies which worked really well for us, as we thought that we would have had a great difficulty in actually constructing the movie by finding an ideal location, and actually sticking to the initial idea we had through the story boards, which I personally was impressed by myself and my team that we worked well and got out task done in the specific time period which we were provided with.


What difficulties did we face?

Well as one of the tasks was to do a shot reverse shot & get a shot of different angles, this would have been virtually impossible, as we only had a group of 3 and 2 of them being the main actors, we needed a extra person to help us with the production, to pull of the task of shot reverse shot etc, as we needed to find an extra individual, this was very time consuming and was a long procedure and also cut into our production time which was a great downfall, also as we knew about stuff like 180 degree rule we broke this rule maybe through lack of time or maybe the inexperience of how to actually conduct the move, which was a bit of a problem & also another major problem we was faced with that we needed the cameras to switch at the perfect time so that we could get the clip to look as smooth as possible, which didn’t actually go as intended, however we did well for our first time production.

How could we improve it?

We could have defiantly improved it on a major scale by doing something as minor as better time management, this would of allowed us to sit in the environment we shot in and plan out everything in the room i.e. where the camera man should be standing in this shot, what angle the camera man should be shooting whilst Denis is gliding the folder over to, this is where the production could look fairly professional by having cuts between shots perfectly and having everything running smoothly.

What good pointers have we picked up that we intend to carry to main production?

Well some of the main points that we have defiantly realised that we need to plan every little step from the first scene to the last scene, as through this we will be able to make the prefect production.
The main one that we will be carrying through I think will be the time management as this will definitely be a major factor as the next project is going to be a big one as it is our main coursework piece which needs to be more details and be of higher expectations.