Preliminary Exercise Evaluation ..

Evaluation ..

My Preliminary exercise consists of a short opening of a girl who walks up to her friend and admits she's done something but doesn't say what she's done. I worked in a group with Anita and Navneet and from reading the preliminary brief it was clear we had to make something exciting so as a group we all came up with the idea of "Murder" it was exciting and would grab the attention of the audience straight away.  

"Murder" starts with a girl walking down the stairs with a scared but lost look on her face. You can tell straight away somethings wrong which would appeal to the audience as they would want to know what's going on. The brief mentioned Match on Action which is continuity editing and I think my group has done that really well as it all made sense and it worked really well. We tried to use as many shots as we could such as, close-up, medium shots, long shots and a point of view shot. The brief didn't mention anything about camera movement so we didn't focus on that as much as everything else. 

One thing that we defiantly learnt from the preliminary exercise is how effective it to film in a quite area. As  we watched the film it was clear just a little bit of sound really makes a difference. The audio was really bad, needless to say it was all diegetic as it all came from the canteen making it not our fault. The timing and pace in one shot didn't fit as it was too fast and the shot that followed it was too long. Also, the 180 degree rule was correct and was done well but the framing of the shot was good because it involved the background more than the actual person. 

On the other hand, the acting was good which is really important as it engages the audience. The continuity editing was really good as it worked well, it explained the story without the audience getting confused, and there was a lot of shots with makes it more entertaining to watch, for example if the actual sense was boring but the camera shots were really well and looked exciting it would keep the audience involved. We really thought the storyboard was helpful because there came a time were we didn't know what we were doing so we referred back to the storyboard and the shot list helped us make sure we go enough shorts when it came to editing, because we had the shot list it made everything much quicker when we was filming because we already new everything we had to do and all the shots we needed.  

The close up of the pen dropping was to create an enigma code, as her facial expression and the pen dropping makes the audience think. We used the props (Mise-en-scene) which was the pen effectively to help create the enigma code. The audience would want to know what's happened then it goes back to the the murderer with her face in her hands which shows something wrong or shes don't something. 

I feel, throughout this exercise my group and I have learnt new things which will help us when it comes to the real product and the small things that no one focuses on is really important because it can cause a big problem when editing. Overall, I think we all worked really hard to get it complete, well all had different but really good ideas.