Evaluation

Evaluation

 

 

 

I have really enjoyed taking part in this task. It has been an excellent way to practice and experiment with different skills and technqiues. Throughout our task, I feel that every member in our group participated equally and we were very pleased with the end result. I am very pleased with how well everybody worked and how much effort was put in. We managed to reach our aim of including all 3 techniques: match on action, shot reverse shot and 180 degree rule. We received extremely positive feedback when we showed our video to the class, the response was that the video was very succesful for our first try and that we managed to include all three techniques successfully . The only negative feedback was a small criticism regarding our match on action, the response was that it looked unprofessional. We have taken this feedback on board and will definitely work on this technique in the future. I am looking forward to working with my group again in the future.

Video task

Preliminary video

Shooting script

Shooting Script

In Alice's living room

Scene 1

Shot Number Description Sound duration

1 Over the shoulder tracking TV in the background 5seconds

shot of first character walking diegetic sound

towards the living room.

2 Close up of the door handle Diegetic sound of 3seconds

turning for character 1 to the TV

go in. Match on action shot.

3 180 degree rule of Diegetic sound of 5seconds

character 1 walking in, Mid the TV

shot from the left.

4 Tracking shot of character Diegetic sound of 2seconds

1 walking towards character 2. the TV

5 Close up of character 2. Diegetic sound 4seconds

of the TV

6 Two shot of both Dialogue 5seconds

characters. Both begin to Diegetic sound of

talk. the TV

7 Shot reverse shot whilst Dialogue 5seconds

characters are speaking. Diegetic sound of

the TV

Dialogue

Characters

Alice- character 1

Emily- character 2

Character 1- "What are you doing here?"

(confused facial expression, confused tone of voice)

Character 2- "Your mum invited me round for tea"

(Scoffing food and also not paying attention. Turns to Alice with food still in her mouth)

Character 1- "Ha-ha, my mum didn't tell me about this?"

(Amused facial expression. Sarcastic tone of voice)

Character 2- "Ahh, I dunno, Do you want a wedge?"

(Nonchalant expression. High pitch tone of voice)

Character 1- "Yeah go on then"

(smiling whilst moving to sit next to character 2)

Storyboard

Roles throughout the task

Throughout this task, I will be working with Anyia, Emily and Keeley, we have chosen this group as we all agree that we will work well together and be well organised. If filming together does not work effectively the first time, we may need to reconsider the group.


Throughout my group, we have assigned roles for our preliminary task.
We have decided that since it is the first task, we will allow keeley and anyia to direct and film so we can observe how well they do. We feel that keeley and anyia will be good at this role as they are hard working and organised: the job will get done fairly quickly. We have decided that myself and Emily will be captured throughout the scene, while observing the techniques before we try directing/filming next time.

Enjoying blogging?

So far, I am really enjoying blogging. It is a creative and simple way of organising everything relating to the task.

It allows me to store all my thoughts/ideas/ and plans in one area, which is extremely helpful towards this subject.

 

I am looking forward to expanding my blog in the future.

Research definitions

Throughout our preliminary task, we will include these techniques:

Match on action:

 Match on action is a technique of filming used in many sorts of films. It consists of connecting 2 shots together in which a character finishes off an action in the second shot that was started in the first one, for example a clip of a character walking through a door in which he opens the door being filmed from behind then the clip cuts to him walking through from the other one.                          

 

180 degree rule

A rule in continuity editing that states the position of the camera should never change the right-to-left relationships of characters in a scene. The one exception is when the camera is panning, although too much of this can be dizzying if not confusing.


Shot/reverse shot
Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), followed by the other character looking back at the first character.