PRELIMINARY TASK EVALUATION

AS preliminary task from Jemma Goulds on Vimeo.

The group that I was in had four group members which were Josephine, Terry, Duane and Me.
The criteria for the preliminary task was that you must have a character opening a door, a character crossing a room, a character sitting down in a chair opposite to another character, dialogue, match on action, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

Before we started planning for the task we did some research, which was watching on YouTube some other AS media students preliminary task which gave a indication of what we really had to do for the task, also we evaluated their tasks so we could see what good things we could do and what areas the students did not do so well that we could improve.

Then we got into groups and decided what was going to happen in our preliminary task, we decided that it was going to have a spy theme and about three spies that meet in a café and have a discussion. We chose the spy theme because we wanted to make something exciting and also we wanted it to be secretive.

After that we did some research into editing techniques and found some that we were going to use.
Next we made our story board so that we could know what shots we were going to use and where we were going to use them and how long each shot was going to last.

After that we were given the cameras to go and start filming, we managed to get all the filming done that we needed to and the café that we choice to be one of are locations allowed us to go in and film. Our actors were Josephine, Terry and Natalia; we used these people to act because they were available and are able to act.
We chose the outside of the school to show where the spies chasing each other to the secret location, we chose it because it was the easiest building to get assess to. The next location is the high street to show the chase and also to show the everyday settings. We chose the café to represent the secret place and to show that spies can meet anywhere.

We then viewed what we had produced and saw that we needed to redo the conversation between the characters because it was to soft so we could not hear, also we saw that we had not covered all of the criteria for the task. We decided that we should just do the filming from the café.

The things that went well in are task is that we managed to do all the criteria that were needed for the task. Another thing that when well was the acting in the task, the next thing that went well was that we were able to do all the filming that we needed to do. Also getting the use of the café went well because we had not problems with permission. Another thing that went well was that we was able to use a variety of camera shots in the task.
Things that could have gone better was the dialogue, there was a lot of noise in the café so it was hard to hear the dialogue in the café. The second thing that could have gone better is lighting that was in the café, it would have been better if it was brighter, thirdly if the café would have been less busy so that we could not have to stop filming because of customers walking in and out.