Annotated preliminary task

This is our video annotated with good and bad things.

Preliminary task (Mysterious Man)

Evaluation of the preliminary task.

From the preliminary task we learned some good techniques, also we found out things to avoid for our thriller opening such as unsteady camera footage and cheesy parts. We also discovered that it is hard to keep a straight face when filming with your friends, due to this we have decided to use someone else in our opening so it looks more serious. We each got to use the camera to film bits of the prelim piece, this made sure we all got to grips with using the camera. Using the cameras and getting used to them was a great benefit as it will be easier for us to use them straight away when filming our real piece, we learned how to set up the camera, how to make it steady. We also experienced the difficulties you can get with lighting such as dim lighting or over exposed. To change this we would need to look at the location more carefully. Another issue we experienced was that hand held camera is not good to use unless you are it is for a particular effect, we used hand held camera to track the characters feet, which we plan to use panning on the feet in our actual piece as that is just moving the camera that is already on the stand, rather than having to hold it. Due to the hand held footage being unsteady it didn't look as professional as we wanted. This is something we will improve on.
One thing that went well was we managed to film the whole thing in under an hour, meaning we used our time wisely and didn't waste any. This was due to our carefully thought out plan, we knew what we were doing and where just from looking at the plan.
Overall our prelim task was very successful and gave us a good insight to what filming will be like in the future. The whole group got to lean from the experience of it.

Evaluation of Preliminary filming task- Rosalia

I think that as a whole the preliminary task was a success.  


Strengths
Our time management was good as we finished our filming in under an hours media lesson. I think that our plans were very well set out as we had no problems filming and it all flowed smoothly and knew exactly what we were st out to do. Our set that we chose to do our filming in was completely empty which allowed us to do whatever we wanted to do. 


Weaknesses
i think that a weakness of our preliminary task was that we had some technical difficulties in using the equipment,we needed some time in getting used to the camera and the tripod. Another weakness was that in a particular scene with Amelia dancing on stage, we should have been more organised in figuring out what she was going to do exactly as it took a few tries to get it right. A last weakness was that we had problems with lighting in particular places by the hall. This means that Amelia's barely seen until she enters the hall, which is what we could change, the next time we film.

Danielle preliminary filming evaluation

Overall I think we did very well filming our preliminary task, getting it all finished in a one hour lesson to what I think will be quite a high standard. We all shared some of the filming so we all got a chance to hold the camera and get used to how it worked which could help us when we begin filming for our thriller opening. To improve I think we could have maybe picked a better location or taken into account other locations which could have been more suitable as we had trouble with background noise from a lesson in the neighbouring drama studio and quite low lighting on the stairs where we filmed on so it is very dark and you couldn't really see amelia's face.
I though we worked well as a team though, sharing out the jobs and making sure everyone was happy with the footage that we captured.

Script

this is the script we will use for our prelim task