Evaluation Activity 7

Looking back on the preliminary task I feel that I have progressed a lot with the types of shot we should use and how to use them most effectively. I have developed skills for keeping continuity throughout the scenes which I fell is very important. Poor continuity would be very noticeable and would affect the quality of the film and reflect badly on us as directors.

I feel that I have learnt when to use the match on action shots to good affect and to edit it correctly so that you cannot see the difference. An example of this happened during the preliminary task when Alex reached for the door handle and he then  re-reached for it again so there was no continuity in then scene. Having watched the scene and identified our mistake we corrected it in the final product. This imporved the scene significantly which gave the scene an authentic look in the film .

 

I also learnt how to use the 180 degree rule. I feel that we used the 180 degree rule effectivley in both the preliminary task and in the final task. The correct implementation of the 180 degree rule made a significant difference in our tasks as you can see from the attached.







This scene is the over the shoulder shot which we used on the left in the preliminary task and on the right is our main film in our preliminary task. On the left we have shot the scene too far away from Sams shoulder which means that we are not giving the audience an insight into what Sam is seeing. Where as on the actual film on the right the way we shot the scene we give the audience a chance to understand my point of view.  I believe that by correcting the mistake that we made in the preliminary task we have made the shot more engaging. By doing this we are trying to make the audience feel like they are in the room with us.