By Harry Pennington

Preliminary Task Evaluation

• The task overall was good by the book, we

didn’t break any rules and managed to abide by

the standards set, We had the scene progress,

someone walked in, sat down, we exchanged a

few bits of dialogue and ended, we edited the

video appropriately and we made sure we was

true to the 180 degree rule etc.

• Obstacles and issues- we had a few things to overcome, one was the furniture, the room we was in had lots of tables in and we had to awkwardly manoeuvre the camera in order to get the right angles and keep to the rules, but we persevered! We had the issue of also finding an appropriate room to film in during the time we had, this caused a few logistical problems as we all had different free lessons and when we was all together we were hard put to actually find a room, however we did find one and we again managed to pull it off! The last issue we had was the editing, we were put to our limits in order to find the best software to edit together our video, there were hardly any computers in the school that would do it, but we eventually managed to find one and put together the final piece.

• Improvements- in order to improve, we needed to find a more

soundproof room, we noticed when watching it back that there

was a fair bit of background noise that invades the clip, also we

didn’t have much dialogue, one of the characters talks for about

0.4 seconds all together, not imputing a lot so we could have a

larger script, could of found a bigger room, it was very hard

getting the right angles while at the same time keeping our

balance and not falling over, and the lighting was very bright so we

could tone it down with blinds or curtains for a better quality

image. The door nearly hit the camera at the start which if it did,

would of led to a funny but expensive accident, we need to do

better editing, we had never done it before and as you can tell

through the video, we aren’t the best. Also due to time constraints

we was unable to film the entire thing in one sitting, hence the

last scene where the person is walking out, he has had a haircut

and the room looks different.

• Tutorials- I used a couple of camera

tutorials to help with the task, so it

would look professionally done, these

were

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICcE72

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1japI

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• Lessons learned- To find a large room with a good level

of lighting, plan everything ahead so we don’t run out

of time, keep the scene the same through out to avoid

any continuity issues and to have a larger and better

script for a good dialogue, also to watch a few more

tutorials so the video will have better looks and the

editing will be much smoother allowing for a

professional look all over.

• link to preliminary-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8cjrVFfE2s