Prelim Evaluation

The success full things overall was that we were able to produce the final products with all the shots we needed and following the brief. We included the shot reverse shot and the match cut and we did it in the type of a thriller (psychological).

Overall there are many things that we could have done better with this preliminary exercise. One is the narrative we chose to go with. We had to make a decision quite quickly so we could go on and take the shots for our storyboard and blog and be ready for the next lesson as we were behind. Our story was about a man who had previously taken some tests to see if he had a mental illness and he went to the doctor to find out the results. The brief said we had to shoot someone walking into a room, sitting down and having a conversation and the video had to include a match cut and shot reverse shot edits. The narrative we chose was quite broad and open to interpretation unless you know beforehand what is going on in the shots and I think if someone who didn't know the story they wouldn't easily figure out the scenario.
Also where we filmed was a problem. We used a media classroom which was quite disorganized and had bad lighting so we struggled to frame the shots properly and made it look like it was bad quality. In addtion
there were interference's with people walking and talking by so the quality of our shots would've been reduced as we had to rush them and try to get them over and done with before others walked by or in order to film when there wasn't speech in the background. Time is also an issue and hopefully with practice we will learn to manage our time properly

As well as other experiences of filming during lesson , this preliminary exercise helped us to get used to using the cameras even more and get better at editing and directing each other. This will help us when it comes to our own thriller opening as the shots will be better, thus, our final product will be better. Also, we'll be able to think more creatively in terms of narrative and make our thriller opening more interesting and appealing to our audience.