This document summarizes Laura Knowles' evaluation of her group's preliminary task video project. Some key learnings included setting up cameras properly, editing techniques like adding titles and clipping videos. Shooting different shots out of order helped save time. The group worked well together with defined roles. A storyboard guided filming. The final video flowed better than expected. Areas for improvement included smoother transitions between shots and adding sound effects. Feedback from others will be in the next blog post. Laura acted as the villain and helped with editing to make the video flow well. She gained skills and contributed to the successful group outcome.

1. Overall Evaluation Of
Preliminary Task.
By Laura Knowles.

2. What I learned during the making of my
preliminary task…
• I learned simple things such attaching the cameras to the tripod and how to set them up
properly for the different shots that we included. I also learnt how to do some simple editing
on the computer including adding titles and clipping different pieces of vedios
• I learnt that we had to shoot different shots that weren’t practically next to each other in the
final video but at the end we edited them together. This helped save time as we didn’t have
to keep changing the camera angle so frequently.
• I think that we worked well in a group because we knew our parts and what we all had to do
for a good outcome.
• We made a storyboard to make it easier when it came to filming. This storyboard included all
of the different shots and the angles that were used. Although the final outcome of our piece
did turn out a bit different than what we had written on our storyboard.

3. Issues around continuity…
• I don’t think that there were any major problems with out continuity as
we wore the same clothes and tried to look the same on the days of
filming, making it look as if it was all filmed at once on the same day.

4. Areas of success…
• I think that the final video turned out better than expected and the
different shots that we used flowed better than we thought they actually
would. This made the video look like it was all in one and the mistakes
were easily taken away.
• I think that our shot reverse shot worked quiet nicely as we used the 180
degree rule well and made it look like me and Sophie were actually
talking to each other.
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5. Areas for development…
• Although I think that our overall continuity worked very well, to improve
it I think that we could have tried to make the overall piece try and flow I
little bit better by making sure one shot smoothly lead to the next, which
would help the video look less sharp.
• I also think that we could have also added some music and sound effects
to make the begging of the video where Sophie is walking down the
corridor more effective.

6. How well we met the brief…
• I think that we used the 180 degree rule well and managed to angle the
camera well so as you could see the back of the other persons head when
the other was talking, and managed to get them at the same height so it
didn’t look as if one was higher or lower than the other.

7. Feedback from others!..
our feedback from another group will be included on the next blog post. It
will include what they think we did well and what they think we could have
improved on to make it better…

8. Evaluation of groups contribution…
• In the task I was one of the actresses and I played the villain who was planning world
domination.
• I also helped with part of the editing and putting the clipped videos into order to make
the whole thing flow like it should do.
• From doing this I have gained a few skills on the computer about how editing works.
• I think that I worked well as part of the group and I did what I needed to do to make the
video what it was, and I am happy with how it turned out in the end.
• I also think that everybody else in the group also did what they needed to and knew
what roles they had (they worked well doing what they were doing).