The document summarizes a student film project. It describes how the student was assigned acting and directing roles. They storyboarded and planned shots, props, and dialogue with their group. On the day of filming, there were some issues with crew in shots but they were fixed in editing. New ideas like match cuts and shot reverse shots were tried. Editing involved adding layered music and syncing a clock tick to actor movement. The hardest parts were holding breath under a sheet and ensuring proper camera angles during shoots. Match cuts with a dropping handkerchief were successfully executed. For future projects, the student would spend more time on camera angles and details to make a more professional result.

1. Prelim evaluation
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I was assigned two roles one as an actor/extra and another as the director (shared with someone else), we (as a group) had
met up and planned our storyboard, camera skills we were going to use and scripted a small dialogue between the two
characters. We had made props for the play which included a sheet stained with blood and an envelope.
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On the day the filming went well, we had a few problems with the crew being caught in the camera shot, but we were able
to rectify that in editing, we tried out a number of new ideas than we had planned( which included match on action and
shot reverse shot). Everyone in the group worked well together as a team and we all got our individual planning jobs done
both on the day and in advance.
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Whilst in the editing suite we played round with layered music and backing tracks over the acting and even managed to
match the ticking of a clock to the pace at witch the actors walked.
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The hardest p-art of my small acting role was that, whilst under a sheet I had to hold my breath for considerable amounts of
time, and try to make sure that my hand didn’t move during the shots, a job that I regrettably wasn’t able to do, but was cut
during editing.
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The hardest part of my directing role was trying to make sure that the camera was in the right angle and that the actors
weren't looking at the camera when we were shooting.
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Things that went really well that we managed to successfully pull off match on action in the form of a dropping
handkerchief.
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If I were to do this task again I would have spent more time worrying about the camera angles and other fine details to
create a more professional result.

2. Prelim evaluation part 2
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In shot one we showed a girl with a skull ring( to show death) rubbing blood of her hands with a
rag ,for this we used close up shots, long shots and match on action to connect the next shot, these
shots all went well but we didn’t plan to use the match on action on our storyboard. The use of the
close up on the hands also gives a sense of uncertainty in the audience. Next we zoomed out the
camera to reveal our femee fatal who (which was assumed) that she had killed the body under the
cloth. We then increased the tempo of the music to increase the suspense. Next we showed our
character walk across the corridor( we had originally planned to have our character walk down a
flight of stairs but because of limiting filming space we were forced to change). She then showed
our character opening a door then stop and pause to create a sense of urgency in the audiences
mind. During this shot we backed the shot with a slow and menacing ticking noise with the shot of
a man sitting at a table tapping his watch. After we panned across whilst the character walked to
meet the man on the table. After this we used many other techniques during their brief
conversation including shot reverse shot, close ups and we made sure that at all times we kept to
the 180 rule.