Preliminary Evaluation

Preliminary Task Evaluation

Pre – Production
Before we started filming we needed no plan what we had to do first so we could film with as little interruptions as possible. We first wrote down some ideas for what we wanted to do in the filming and eventually came to a decision. We then storyboarded our idea so we could see all the shots and how it would go together. We decided we would have a man (myself) barging into a door with gun in hand and ask a lawyer (Lizzie Maddocks) some questions about the whereabouts of some papers. We had to adapt some ideas due to conflict of opinion but eventually came to a joint decision about what the characters will say and do. With all this agreed upon and on paper, we turned our attention to filming the preliminary task.

Filming
For the filming we decided to film at my house as it had a good set up for the room we had envisioned in the storyboard. We changed the room slightly in order to get the correct shots we needed whilst trying to avoid any continuity e.g. time or change of lighting. This posed quite a problem when we were filming because we couldn’t decide whether to incorporate natural or artificial light. Eventually settling on artificial light we started filming. We shot each bit of the film about three times to make sure we got the best shot possible. This also helped later in the editing as we had a range of shots to choose from. During our filming, we violated the 180° rule and therefore need to go back and re-film the bits where we made the mistakes. This will set us back but hopefully we can get the bits we need and continue editing.

Editing
During editing we had to upload the footage that we shot onto the computers and edit it down to around a minute long. With the new footage uploaded it didn’t take us long to cut it down to around 40seconds. This time round we found editing a lot easier because we didn’t have any mistakes uin the footage and we had less to go through. Working with the other 2 people in my group was very easy as they co-operated very well and we got the work done in no time

Conclusion
In conclusion, I think we worked very well as a team and the preliminary task has set us on the right course to shoot our main project. I think we need to plan a little more and try and keep our time in order better for the main project.