Preliminary Final Video
Evaluation
In today's lesson (14/10/14) we started our evaluations. We started the lesson with a list of what to include in our evaluation to make it the best grade possible. From this i learnt that i needed to include, terminology, explanation, analysis and strenghts and weakenesses. Below is my evaluation.
Our plan for our preliminary task was to make a short extract that included the camera techniques: match on action shot, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. We started off with an establishing shot of the waiting room in which the patients and receptionists are sitting. We decided to use an establishing shot to clearly show the location, this then helps to identify the situation in which the characters are in. The next shot we originally planned to use was a close up of the patients feet walking. However when filming the shot, it started off as a close up of the patients feet, however it quickly turned into a medium close up, showing her feet and legs walking. Although we had not planned this shot, we thought that it suited the extract as it appeared natural and quite realistic. Therefore we decided to keep the shot as it was filmed.The next shot we used was a close up of the patients face while she was walking to the doctors room. We decided to use a close up as it shows the patients facial expressions which adds tention to the scene. Following this shot was another close up, however this time the focus was on the patients hand while she turns the door handle, this then lead into a match on action shot as the paitent enters the room. This keeps the audience following the characters actions and keeps a realistic view on the shot. Straight after the match on action shot a mid shot of the paitent entering the doctors room is used. The mid shot allows the audience to see the actors body language as she enters. After this, around 25 seconds in, we used the 180 degree rule, in which the camera stayed on one side of the scene during this shot, this allows the 2 characters to have a conversation without appearing to quickly switch sides in the view of the audience if the camera angle was to move. As there was 2 characters in one shot, we also used a two shot while filming the 180 degree rule. The next scene in our short extract was a short conversation between the character of the paitent and the character of the doctor. For this scene we decided to use shot-reverse-shot. The first shot was a mid shot of the patient saying the dialouge "Doctor, Doctor, Ive swallowed a role of film". After this we edited in another mid shot, however this time of the doctor. Through this we are able to see the doctors reaction to the statement made by the paitent, and after this he also says a line of dialouge "Come back tomorrow and we'll see how it develops". One final shot is made of the the patients reaction to the doctors response. We decided to use a close up of the patients face to clearly see her confused reaction. This shows humour to the audience as confusion is stereotypically seen as funny.
Once we had finished all of our filming, we moved onto the editing of our short extract. Overall i felt our editing went well. We were able to cut down certain clips, move the frame so it fitted how we wanted it to, delete the parts of the clips we felt we no longer needed and put all the clips together in a way that flowed through. However we did face a difficulty while editing when we discovered some background noise in one of our clips. The noise did not effect the scene massively however as we had time we thought we would try to get rid of it. Although we discovered that we could not get rid of a section of the sound without deleteing the whole audio. Which clearly we could not do as we would loose our dialouge at the end of our extract. Therefore we decided to leave the background noise in. However we learnt that in future filming we need to be more careful with the noises around the setting in which the filming will take place.
Other than our mistake with the background noise. I felt our group did very well in making sure no continuity mistakes were made. All of our filming was completed in one day which gave us the advantage of not having to make sure outfits and props were the same as the day before. Therefore we were confident that no continuity mistakes would be made within the mise en scene. We also made sure that there was no continuity mistakes in the main camera angles we had to include (180 degree rule, match on action and shot-reverse-shot) by researching the camera angles before hand so we were confident in how to achieve the best results we could, and also by checking over that the continuity was consistant through the filming.
In conclusion, I felt our main strengths throughout this preliminary task was that we worked well as a team and co-operated well together, which meant we were able to get the task done quickly but precisely. Our weakness throughout our preliminary task was that we did not pay enough attention to the background noise while filming. However we learnt from this mistake and will be more careful to not repeat it in future filming tasks. Overall i felt that our group succeeded within the preliminary task and create a successful final extract.
In today's lesson (14/10/14) we started our evaluations. We started the lesson with a list of what to include in our evaluation to make it the best grade possible. From this i learnt that i needed to include, terminology, explanation, analysis and strenghts and weakenesses. Below is my evaluation.
Our plan for our preliminary task was to make a short extract that included the camera techniques: match on action shot, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. We started off with an establishing shot of the waiting room in which the patients and receptionists are sitting. We decided to use an establishing shot to clearly show the location, this then helps to identify the situation in which the characters are in. The next shot we originally planned to use was a close up of the patients feet walking. However when filming the shot, it started off as a close up of the patients feet, however it quickly turned into a medium close up, showing her feet and legs walking. Although we had not planned this shot, we thought that it suited the extract as it appeared natural and quite realistic. Therefore we decided to keep the shot as it was filmed.The next shot we used was a close up of the patients face while she was walking to the doctors room. We decided to use a close up as it shows the patients facial expressions which adds tention to the scene. Following this shot was another close up, however this time the focus was on the patients hand while she turns the door handle, this then lead into a match on action shot as the paitent enters the room. This keeps the audience following the characters actions and keeps a realistic view on the shot. Straight after the match on action shot a mid shot of the paitent entering the doctors room is used. The mid shot allows the audience to see the actors body language as she enters. After this, around 25 seconds in, we used the 180 degree rule, in which the camera stayed on one side of the scene during this shot, this allows the 2 characters to have a conversation without appearing to quickly switch sides in the view of the audience if the camera angle was to move. As there was 2 characters in one shot, we also used a two shot while filming the 180 degree rule. The next scene in our short extract was a short conversation between the character of the paitent and the character of the doctor. For this scene we decided to use shot-reverse-shot. The first shot was a mid shot of the patient saying the dialouge "Doctor, Doctor, Ive swallowed a role of film". After this we edited in another mid shot, however this time of the doctor. Through this we are able to see the doctors reaction to the statement made by the paitent, and after this he also says a line of dialouge "Come back tomorrow and we'll see how it develops". One final shot is made of the the patients reaction to the doctors response. We decided to use a close up of the patients face to clearly see her confused reaction. This shows humour to the audience as confusion is stereotypically seen as funny.
Once we had finished all of our filming, we moved onto the editing of our short extract. Overall i felt our editing went well. We were able to cut down certain clips, move the frame so it fitted how we wanted it to, delete the parts of the clips we felt we no longer needed and put all the clips together in a way that flowed through. However we did face a difficulty while editing when we discovered some background noise in one of our clips. The noise did not effect the scene massively however as we had time we thought we would try to get rid of it. Although we discovered that we could not get rid of a section of the sound without deleteing the whole audio. Which clearly we could not do as we would loose our dialouge at the end of our extract. Therefore we decided to leave the background noise in. However we learnt that in future filming we need to be more careful with the noises around the setting in which the filming will take place.
Other than our mistake with the background noise. I felt our group did very well in making sure no continuity mistakes were made. All of our filming was completed in one day which gave us the advantage of not having to make sure outfits and props were the same as the day before. Therefore we were confident that no continuity mistakes would be made within the mise en scene. We also made sure that there was no continuity mistakes in the main camera angles we had to include (180 degree rule, match on action and shot-reverse-shot) by researching the camera angles before hand so we were confident in how to achieve the best results we could, and also by checking over that the continuity was consistant through the filming.
In conclusion, I felt our main strengths throughout this preliminary task was that we worked well as a team and co-operated well together, which meant we were able to get the task done quickly but precisely. Our weakness throughout our preliminary task was that we did not pain enough attention to the background noise while filming. However we learnt from this mistake and will be more careful to not repeat it in future filming tasks. Overall i felt that our group succeeded within the preliminary task and create a successful final extract.