Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

The storyboard helped us in creating our final product in many ways. One of the ways it helped us was we was able to have a group discussing and write down all the scenes we were going to shoot, also the timing of the shots and the shots we were planning to use. This helped us as we were able to pre plan what we was going to do which saved us a lot of time, then having to plan what we were going to be doing on the stop. However we did make slight changes to what we wrote on our storyboard, however they were minor changes which we thought would fit better for our preliminary exercise or to fit the time we were given. What I would do differently next time would be take more time on planning before we start filming. My group including me were too excited to film so we just used the first idea that came to our head and put it on paper and then when filming, we later on realised this and hoped our storyline was effective, which in the end it was. Therefore I think we rushed our planning stage. I would also take more time and film a shot more than once. This is because I believe the slightest error could ruin the whole project. Also by filming a shot more then once it gives you more of a variety to film with. I would also film shots in more than one angle, I would try and film a shot in 3 or 4 different angles this is because when it comes to editing it will also give us a more of a variety of shots to work with, also if we think a certain shot would look better from a different angle we would have already covered it. 

Our weaknesses for the preliminary exercise were, we did not take enough time in planning our project. I think we rushed our storyboard as we wanted to start filming. However we did take some time in thinking and planning what we were going to do, but just not enough time. I also think we did not spend enough time on filming. I believe this as we did not film shots as many times as we should of which we later regretted. I also think we should of filmed a shot from more then one angle, this is because we would have had more of a variety of shots when editing, however as we did not do that we were stuck with the shots we had. Our overall downfall when it came to filming and pre production was we rushed the process. I also think another one of our weaknesses was our prop selection, which would relate to mise en scene I think we used inappropriate props that took the attention away from the audience and were not effect or needed in the shot. So for next time id select the right props and also not have that many props in a shot, as it takes the audience attention away. 

I think one of our strength is that we used good camera movement and used the correct shots to make it effective. I also think we used good camera shots to show the dramatic tension and the emotions in the film. I also think we stayed in character; Stefan created a good shot of him looking at the window which creating tension. I also think we used sound well as it added to the tension of the clip. I also think we created attention on detail with the close up shots. Finally I think the editing pace and putting all the shots together was done well. Overall I think we conducted our preliminary exercise well. However our main objective for next time would be to work on our pre planning more and take more time with it. Also take more than one shot and from more than one angle.

Mr Halsey