Preliminary task evaluation (film)

1. for my preliminary task, i had worked with Dan Miller and Bradley Cooke. we had managed the task between us by each doing our contribution to the piece. we did this with Bradley doing the filming, me sorting out angle shots and what shots would make the film more effective and finally, Dan did the editing on his Mac computer.

2. During the stage of making the storyboard. the 3 of us decided that we wanted to have more of an arguement than a conversation. at this point we hadn't figured out what to have a conversation about, then during the filming after school, i had some food, and we had quickly decided that we should have an arguement involving food.

3. firstly, the technology that we had used for this piece was the camera. but we also used the tripod so that we could have done the close up of the doorhandle. we had also used Dan's Mac to do the editing of our short piece to cut our the parts where Bradley says 'go' as a signal to start filming. finally we used the 'Garage band' program on the mac so that we could use our own music in our piece.

4.
5. the conventions that we had used in our piece was that the music sort of went with the film. for example, when a slow piece came up, we had decided to use slow music at that point. we also used some of the camera work effectivly such as when the hand touches the doorhandle the audience know someone is going to walk through the door.

6. the preliminary task breaks the rule of using the 180 degree angle as this is not shown in our piece. at the part of filming we had forgotten to have added this rule to our piece.

7. for mise-en-scene, we had used some to the props that we needed in our piece. for example, we needed to have some of the chocolate fingers so that the audience would know what the arguement is about. for the set, we needed to have a room which no-one was in. this would have made the filming easier for us as there wasn't anyone to distract us and would also be a quiet place so that we could have an arguement.

8. during the piece, there is a sense of the enigma code as the audience see Dan walking and me waiting for him. this is to make the audience wonder how these 2 people are connected to each other. there is also a sense of a storyline in this piece of the 2 people falling out with each other.

9. i think that our piece was a good one as we had acheived most of aims, such as the door shot. if i did this task again i would change it to an arguement about a more serious matter as i think that an arguement about a biscuit seems to be a bit comical to me. i would also include the 180 degree rule as i belive it would make the piece more effective.

10. during this task i have learnt about some of the camera shots to make a short film interesting. i have learnt about the 180 degree rule and what it is. i think that this was an excellent task to do as it has helped me understand what to do if i was to make a film at the end of the year.