The student worked with a group to film a short sequence for a class project. They planned their shooting schedule and storyboarded the shots. Some issues included spending too much time filming conversations and not having detailed shots planned out. Their strengths were leaving enough time to film and improving planning for a re-shoot. Moving forward, they would create a more detailed storyboard and change camera operators to improve continuity. Overall the sequence was successful but they would improve one shot by allowing more space behind the subject. The student learned about time management, cooperation in groups, organization and technical filming skills through completing the task.

1. Prelim Task Evaluation
By Tyra Chuck

2. 1.
Who did you work with and how did you manage the tasks between you? Explain how you organised your time and
schedules. What issues came up with time management? What problems did you come up against? How did you deal with
these? What were your strengths and weaknesses in this area? What would you do differently next time?
•Our time was occupied from (2:40-4:00pm) to film after school
•settings in our film to be filmed in chronological order.
•locations :outside of the humanities block in school, inside the
humanities block, and a media classroom.
•filmed in chronological order.
Management
(timing and
schedules)
•Weakness:
•filming of conversations (too much time consumed during it)
•lack of images of shots on storyboard for planning
•Strengths:
• Leaving enough time in order to film the conversation
Management
Evaluation
(strengths and
weaknesses)
What would you do
differently ?
•(When we did filming again in order to re film some of our shots
we) :
•Created a more detailed story board in order to plan the camera
shots needed to be used. Also to improve the continuity of our
shots.
•Changed main camera operator/filmer (Fahad) but still had
assistance of old one.

3. How did you plan your sequence? What process did you use?
• Were shown previous examples of prelim
task short films in order to gain inspiration
and ideas in order to achieve ours.
Step 1
• Create a storyboardStep 2
• Take into consideration of the connotation
of the shot, space, location ect.Step 3

4. What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it? What did you learn
about using the cameras? Here you can also refer to the discussions we have had in class
recently about digital cameras.
• Canon Hd camera
• Tripod
• White board
• White board pen
Technology
used
• filming is highly time consuming
• You have to set up a shot before filming it in order to get an accurate shot.
What did
you learn?
• We were given demonstrations of how to set up a camera and tripod.
• How to shoot different camera shots accurately. And precistly.In class…

5. 4. What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and
editing?
•Brainstorm different types of shots for various areas in the sequence
of the prelim sequence.
•Created a storyboardPlanning
•Improving continuity of shots ; leaving 4/5 second intervals before
and after shot.
•Space within the shot had to be significant enough that there was not
too much space behind out around individuals or objects in the shot.
Shooting
• Time: working efficiently in order to complete editing as we had to
complete it in a set time. Also carefully editing the clips shortening it
in order to continuity of clip to be effective.
•We used Adode premiere for editing
Editing

6. 5. How successful was your sequence? Please identify what worked well, and
with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently?
•Overall our sequence was successful and of a better standard as we
took into account previous mistakes on other shots we had taken in
order to make out sequence of a higher quality.
How successful was
your sequence?
•Using support from other members of the group in order to get a
diverse and audience representative viewpoint of how the shot looks.
(Changing roles slightly).
What worked well?
•In one of our shots (med shot pan) we had too much space behind the
individual in the shot. So, to improve the sequence we would do this
shot differently by creating more space in order for the subject to walk
into so that the audience is following the individual and not catching up
with them. This improves continuity of the shot.
What would you do
differently to improve
your sequence ?

7. 6. What have you learnt from completing the task? Discuss time
management skills, group work skills, organisational skills and technical
skills of production
•Members of group have to be cooperative and all preform to the task
they have been given. Their views and perspectives have to be taken
into consideration also. Equal views.
Group work
skills
•Plan out what you are willing to do before, during and after the
sequence in order to reduce the amount of time taken on the task
and make everything easier and smoother process wise.
Organisation
skills
•Spirit level of camera and other technical areas of camera should be
checked such as the level and structure of the tripod the camera is on.
•All things taught in lesson about filming and camera should be used to
full extent.
Technical
skills
From completing the task I have learned that shooting a sequence, even though short, takes up a lot of time and focus
and there are various things you have to focus on before, during and after shooting the sequence in order for the
overall product to be successful.

8. 7. Post production - What did you learn about the editing process? How did you make
decisions while editing? How did you plan your time to complete the editing task? What were
your strengths and weaknesses in this area? What would you do differently next time?
• Time consuming
• Have to be precise in the timing of the shots in order to fit it in with
others.
• Different tools used for editing : cut
What did you
learn?
• STRENGTH: using all members of the group in order to form different ways
of how the clip and sequence should look/ be like.
• WEAKNESS: not everyone in the group had the same level of skill and
knowledge on editing, so the editing had to be mainly by one person with
input from others in the group.
Strengths/
Weaknesses
• Have all people in the group have more time editing certain areas of the
sequence. Switching roles more in order to gain different contributions as
well as gaining skills in editing too.
What would you
do differently?