Preliminary video Evaluation/Analysis

The Preliminary task was by far the most challenging so far though i have had my ups and down in the experience but i have come out the other side more prepared and more realistic about the problems that i might later on face in my main task. As you know about i had difficultly with my first shot at Preliminary and was forced to go back and re-do it! this not only took away valuable time but also got me worried as to weather or not our group would hit the dead line date. The roles within the group were very fixed and everyone was positioned in a ordinary fashion. Daniel helped Simon with the filming and i acted as the person that wrote the script, story board and made sure there was continuity was controlled and presented. I also played a big part on how i thought the shots would look to a viewer and this i think was one of the hardest multi-task rolls that i have done so far in Media studies. Dean and Tylor how ever did help us dramatically and i would just like to thank them. :)

The post production sounds were humorous and Simon actually enjoyed using Premier Pro to do this, he also crafted some of this work on Logic Pro (this is another editing resource). However on a more negative note our work was analysed by the teacher and we could have made allot of progress. Firstly the shots where good but not fluent throughout and filming did honestly get lazy and more demanding as the hours went by. The sequence and transaction of shots were not followed trough continuously, in the beginning as Bushir came down the stairs there was a shot of his back and side but no signs of a shot from in front. This mistake will not be made again as it seems less realistic and not fully prepared for. The other main issue that was brought upon was the fact that not only were the shots to cut pace but also very long which dragged out the order and made it plain and and simply boring to the viewers, in my opinion that is the last thing we need! The match on action was not fully correct although we did try very hard and went over that several times, i guess the lessoned to be learnt is that filming takes allot of patience and ability to stay positive. Maybe we could have involved more mysterious shots and zooms just to make it a little more interesting. The lighting was also not very great and did not pursue our purpose, unfortunately the light from behind created a shadow and made the scene look like a bit of a horror clip which was the last thing we were going for. The 180% rule was not followed through correctly and was broken this will definitely be taken on board and not happen again as we cannot look like we haven't learned from our experiences today. As you can clearly see the dialogue was quiet so maybe next time before uploading this we can look back at it and make sure the sounds are on point. We need to make sure as a group that we know what is going on in our surroundings and learn from what has gone down so we can improve and produce better quality filming. Anyway enjoy, view and let me know what you think.