- The filming process went well considering they had to change their plan due to casting issues. They were able to use camera techniques like different angles to represent emotions. However, the background mise-en-scene wasn't always accurate and there were issues with sound. - They learned they need to focus more on accurate mise-en-scene, lighting, and exploring more camera angles. They also need to ensure consistent sound quality. - They met most of the brief by using different camera shots and angles, though they forgot one shot of the detective sitting down. - Their editing and use of sound effects helped tell the story, but the mise-en-scene could have been more accurate and

1. Evaluation
Section 1: Filming Progress-
What went well?
Considering we had to change our preliminary completely due to casting difficulties, I feel like the
whole process came together in our filming. With the equipment we used, our camera shots were
steady when they needed to be, and jerky to represent running at the appropriate times. We
managed to use the correct camera angles to represent either reactions, emotions or conversation.
We also managed to cast this video correctly (even though it took many takes) to achieve the
emotions and reactions to create the correct atmosphere.
What mistakes did you make?
In some of our shots, the mise-en-scene wasn’t
accurate. We had objects that don’t link to our
video in the background of some shots. For
example in this shot there are some objects
such as a phone, smoothie maker and other
kitchen utensils that shouldn’t be there. Also
we didn’t check the microphone sound so there
is parts of the video where you can hear a
background fuzzy noise which isn’t the same in every clip. Also in some clips we had the boom pole
included to we had to edit the clips so that they were cropped out which restricted the camera
angles available at times. Also we didn’t exactly focus that much on the lighting so in each clip it
doesn’t always match. One of the biggest mistakes was not giving ourselves enough time to film
which affected our overall production of the video.
What have you learned to take forward to your main task?
We need to make sure the mise-en-scene is accurate and that we don’t have random objects in the
background of our shots, also need to focus on lighting to create the atmosphere we need. We could
also explore more camera angles as we were limited due to mis-en-scene. We also need to check the
microphone is consistent and that there isn’t noticeable fuzzy sounds in the background between
dialogues. Another thing we need to do is making sure that when we cast, we have a solid cast and
our prepared if not as due to this reason, it didn’t give us long to shoot our actual video.
Section 2: Meeting the brief
Evaluate how well you have met the brief.
I think we did meet the brief– we used a variety of camera techniques such as shot reverse shot, 180
degree rule and the matching on action and we used several camera angles such as panning,
zooming and many still camera angles.
We showed the detective opening a door, matching on action, walking through the door and walking
towards the table but one thing we didn’t include in a camera shot was him sitting down but we
didn’t realise that until we were editing. But to cover this we used a fade to black to show time had
moved on where we show him sat down with the rest of the people so I feel like it wasn’t that much
of a problem. We reached the brief to the best of our ability at this current time.

2. Section 3: Technical Skills
 Using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions
We firstly planned to put the title at the beginning of our video but we believed to achieve
the tone we wanted and due to the two different settings, it would look more effective in
between both settings to suggest that they are in different places but we still stuck to the
institutional conventions.
 Using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set
Due to us talking throughout shots, a lot of sound editing had to be done to achieve a decent
video. We didn’t realise about us talking throughout shots, in order for the video to work we
had to add sound effects which were meant to be diegetic. Firstly, the opening of the door
handle, we had to add a sound effect perfectly for this to work. During the running of the
dog walker, we had to cut a lot of the footage due to talking but luckily we didn’t have to
add sound effects for the footsteps. Finding suitable non-diegetic music for our video took a
long amount of time because many of the music clips had too much of a beat to it whereas
we wanted it to slowly increase in pace to create tension to match the action included in our
video.
 Shooting material appropriate to the task set, including controlled use of the camera,
attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene
Some of our shots had shaky footage to fit the purpose of the shot we were taking so this
could look like unsteady filming but hopefully in our main task, if we need that footage we
could make it less shaky. Our framing was consistently good during filming but we had a
problem with the boom pole being in some shots and due to editing this out of the shot, it
decreased the effectiveness of our framing, for example in some shots it was meant to be a
3 shot and only ended out having 2 people
so this limited our capability of the overall
performance of the video.
This is an example of where we originally
planned for a 3 shot but due to ending out
the boom pole, it ended up being a two
shot.
From this I have learned that whilst filming, we need to make sure that the boom pole isn’t
included in the shot to keep our framing as consistent as we want it and to create the right
affect with the camera shot planned.
 Using editing so that the meaning is
apparent to the viewer and making selective
and appropriate use of shot transitions and
other effects
Our mise-en-scene lacked accuracy due to
the place in which we filmed, in the
background of our shots there is many
objects that aren’t relevant, we tried to cover
some (for example, we put a white sheet to
hide some of the background objects as you
can see in this shot). This was also due to lack of time to focus on the planning of location

3. and we will think about it more next time. In the main task we will need to focus more on
mise-en-scene and props to create the accurate setting in which we will film at. Editing was a
huge process in our production due to cropping shots, zooming in to avoid showing as much
inaccurate mise-en-scene (mostly the boom pole), speeding shots up to increase the
constant pace we needed in our video and slowing them down to keep a link with the non-diegetic
music (added during editing).
Our shot transitions were relevant to our video, even though many of our transitions were
cuts, this was to keep a constant pace to keep the audience interested and to match the
storyline. We used a couple of fades to make sure of a smooth viewing when appropriate
such as linking the scenes in the forest to show the dog walkers POV to make it more
realistic.
Overall I believe that our preliminary task went well, especially due to the setbacks during
the process. We have many things to improve on for the main task such as mise-en-scene,
lighting and a wider variety of camera angles.