Prelim evaluation

1. Evaluation
Evaluating my Preliminary Task

2. For our preliminary task my team
had to work with a tennis racket as
our object in a kitchen. Our main
story line was of a teenager who
had not gone to her tennis lessons
and her trainer going to her to make
her join tennis. To do this we had to
develop our skills to plan, ensure
we included specific shots, film it
and then edit it. I think we were very
successful as we included the
criteria we needed to in the film.
What we had to
do

3. Skills attained during this project
I was one of the actresses within the short film but I helped with all the parts of the
creation. For example with our storyboard I contributed to where we needed to
write what shots and angles to use in each box. Additionally when editing I helped
choose which part of each shot we should use and placing them in the correct
order to let the story make sense and look as professional as possible.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to have as much time on the camera as I would have
liked however I was able to film one bit which helped me improve my filming skills.

4. Skills attained during this project
I have also learnt that it is very important to storyboard and shot list because
without those, even brief, outlines of a plan we would not have known what we
would want to film and get done for our film hence making the creation a lot more
difficult. But if you have a detailed list/ plan then you can go straight into filming
and it can help with handling your time a lot easier and smoother.

5. What we did well
In our film we were very successful with the main aim of our film. This was to
include specific criteria such as someone walking through a door, sitting down,
having a conversation and then also to use the 180 degree rule, match cuts and
shot reverse shots, we included all of these in our short film. We also included very
original and dynamic angles such as high and low angles.

6. What could have been done better?
However, even though we included all of the criteria, the filming and editing could
have been better. For example, some of our film wasn’t as steady as it could have
been as it was hand held, making it shaky. Also during the editing, there are some
continuity problems as well as shot jumps, which makes it very unrealistic.
Also after filming we realised that our daylight setting button was on, meaning that
our lighting would have been darker than it should have been, however we were
lucky that in the kitchen that we were using, there was a bright light so it didn’t make
a big difference on the actual film quality.

7. Next time Next time we film we will improve
our filming and editing. Plus we will
make sure our lighting setting is set
to what it should be for our
surroundings, we will use a tripod or
fig-rig more and have shots which
would be easier to edit with to seem
more professional.