Elise Thompson

Review of preliminary task

The task:
For our preliminary task, my group (Paige Edwards and Chloe Lashley) all worked
to produce a brief sequence in which our protagonist walks into a room, sits and
holds a short conversation with another individual then either leaves the room.
Within this task we had to display the use of different editing techniques these
included: match on action, shot-reverse-shot and the 180 degree rule.
Roles within group:
Elise Thompson- Camerawoman
Chloe Lashley- Editor
Paige Edwards- Director
What went well?:
The preliminary task helped us as a group as it allowed us, as a group to
establish roles within our group. It also was helpful in that it allowed all members
to train with the equipment and their individual contribution to the production,
meaning by the time it comes to filming our actual opening sequence we will
have developed a better understanding and improved our skills with the
equipment. We tried our best to strictly follow the 180 degree rule and even tried
to incorporate different techniques we had not previously used and not
mentioned in the specification before such as the focus pull
What could have been improved?
I think as a group we could have been more organised as to setting up the
location and equipment when it came to filming, we had trouble finding a
location which wasted a lot of time also we had some trouble setting up the
camera quickly. The major problem we experienced was prior to our production
when we realised that we did not edit the last segment of our production
properly meaning the directors dialogue and a blooper was within our sequence.
If we had more time:
Because we struggle to get match on action and continuity it would have been
good if we could have repeated either the task or a few of the scenes in order to
improve our production however we had a deadline to meet and also we are
hoping that we will be able to learn from our mistake and each individually see
our improvement in our final production.