Evaluation of My group's Preliminary Exercise.
We as a group came up of an idea for the preliminary exercise which consisted of short opening of a boy who walks throuhg the door and to this girl office. They have been planning a plot which no-one knows about which makes the scene mysterious. I worked in a group with Maram and Naima. The fist shot starts off with a boy walking through the door, it starts off with a close up shot of his feet which could be significant as it could symbolise danger, and this gets an impression is one of the iconography of its genre ( Crime drama).
The brief also mentioned that we had to shoot match on action and the 180 degree rule which was one of our strong point, we used close up shots For example, the close up shot of his hands was to create an enigma code, it wasn’t the best enigma code, however it did make the audience engage with us and question themselves to why he looked nervous and we used medium shots which were significant as they showed their face expressions which built tension, also the match on action was shot excellently. It looked realistic and made the audience engage more.
From watching our preliminary exercise one thing we learnt is that we should have filmed in a quite area, because looking back at it we realised that the Audio wasnt great, and that made it look really unprofessional however, this wasnt the problems as its not the real task but something to think about when doing it . Also the story line of our short extract was that it was supposed to be mysterious however it was in a location which was full of people laughing and talking which made it look unrealistic.
In addition to our 'WWW' our two characters acting was on point and it really made the extract look realistic, the characters face expressions linked to the story line, and the audience didn't get confused to whether it was comedy or serious . More than that the continuous editing was fantastic and it really made it look realistic as if it was all happening at one time. Furthermore, we thought the story board was really helpful because it actually helped us in shooting the extract and knowing what to shoot next. Also the shot list helped us to figure out how many shots we needed. By having the story board and shot list it help us film quicker and easier.
This preliminary exercise has helped us make our weakness into new strength Our group have learnt new things which will help us in the future and we picked out mistakes that we had not recognised really helped us in improving our work for the real exercise.
Level 2: D
ReplyDeleteWWW: You actually produce some nice analysis in places - the comment on the close-up of the feet is excellent, for example.
EBI: Your written English is a concern at AS Level - your second paragraph only contains one full stop and your point is lost as a result. There are far too many errors like this throughout. You also need to provide more depth of analysis for your actual evaluation with detailed paragraphs that pick apart your practical work.
Go back to that first paragraph about pre-production materials. What did you learn about storyboards and shot-lists? What do you need to do to improve these for the real thing?
LR: i need to give myself more time checking my grammer and paragraghs. My first paraghraph improved.
ReplyDeleteWe as a group came up of an idea for the preliminary exercise which consisted of short opening of a boy who walks through the door and to this girl office. They have been planning a plot which no-one knows about which makes the scene mysterious. I worked in a group with Maram and Naima. The first shot starts off with a boy walking through the door, it starts off with a close up shot of his feet which could be significant as it could symbolise danger, and this gets an impression is one of the iconography of its genre (Crime drama). From the storyboard we learnt about the order of shots and actions we wanted to take place. This was very essential as it helped us improve and predict what we were going to do. The shortlist helped us add in more details and close up shots to our preliminary exercise. This would guide us for the real production as it is very easy and clear to understand.