Prelim evaluation

During the process of our preliminary we encountered various problems whilst filming our production. I think that this was a valuable experiance as we have learnt how long it takes to actually film a successful peice of camera work. We frequently had to cut parts of our filming as there would be mistakes for example the actor may starts to laugh as they have lack of concentration. Or even something as simple as somebody who isn't acting accidenly walking past the camera.
Now I understand how for each film there are masses of outcuts, for our prelim which was only supposed to last less than 2 minutes. The filming time was well over 2 hours, the hardest part of the actual filming is making sure that the continuity is always present. So we will have learnt from our mistakes of continuity and carefully plan out each and every shot for our make task.

When filming i thought we abided by the 180 degree rule very well, as when I personally made the plan of where the camera shots will be from I carefully thought out where the shots where from before. I also feel that we used a wide range of camera shots and angles, but we could have improved apon this if we know exactly what location we were to be shooting at. During the prelim we used the following shots

1) Establishing shot
2) Mid shot
3) Close up
4) Extreme close up
5) Low angled shots
6) High angled shots
7) Two shot

When the two shot was used over the shoulder of the angry character, this will show the reaction of the defandant. Whilst having the angry character in the same shot so as the audience you felt as though you were personally at the event. But on the follow through of the this shot we went to and extreme close up of the opposing character, but the camera work wasn't exectuted very well as the zoom in was shaky. When I was editing we could bypass this factor as I accurately cut off the point at which the shaking occurs.

Our maing weakness of the whole team was that the eliment of team work was only present from two of the three team workers. As a consqeunce me and jack had to all of the prelim ourselves which seemed a bit unfair, what we have learnt from this experiance of Dean is that he doesn't show any intention of working nor helping with any aspect of media work. So we will need to either make sure he is pulling his weight, or he will be left to do his main task on his own.

The editing of our prelim took us about 2 or 3 weeks the reason for this is because the mac which our group was using had an unkown software error, which each time you had finished a lessons worth of editing and you save the project and shut down. The next time you opened our file all the editing of which we had done in previous lessons was lost, we have learnt not to use that mac. We took the appriate steps to ensure thatthis wouldn't occur to any other group, we informed our teacher also the IT staff at school.

I conclude that prelims are very worth while as we have learnt that filming takes at least 10 times longer than expected. Also all the formalities which you are expected to have achieved are integeral to ensure that our main tasks will run smoothly. All the mistakes and problems we have encountered during this will all help when planning our main task for dates of which we are doing each part of our production.