The document summarizes and critiques several shots from a filmmaking preliminary task. The first shot was filmed handheld and did not include the main character's entire head. The second shot also did not fully capture the character's head and had an unsteady cut between scenes. The next shot was a slow pan that looked unprofessional because it was handheld. A later shot used a tripod and better captured the character but could have used a different angle. The final shot showed the character having lifeless or inconsistent facial expressions. Overall, the document discusses lessons learned around camera work, shots, character expression, and editing for quality and viewer attention.

1. The first shot is of a character opening the door to a class room. The shot was filmed by
hand, so wasn't very smooth. also it wasn't lined up straight and was more of a high
angle shot, however high angle shots are used to make the character look weak and this
wasn't the case for this shot. The most important error from this shot is that the top of
the characters head isn't in the shot, this is usually used to show the lack of importance
of the character in this shot, but in this case it just shows poor filming as this character
is the main character for the preliminary task.

2. The second shot reveals the characters face after the match on action, however we
continued to film poorly and didn't get the whole of the characters head in the shot.
also the cut from one scene to the next wasn't completely in time and appeared to be
quite jumpy, which could have been avoided by cutting the second scene down
slightly at the start. The camera quality in this shot shows that it is extremely poor and
that this is something we will have to change when we are filming the opening
sequence.

3. The next shot was a slow pan shot also filmed by hand, making it look unprofessional
and bad quality, this could have been filmed using a tri-pod on one of the tables. This
shot was longer than the other shots so that there was a variation of different shot
lengths, to show some thought had gone into the filming process.

4. The next shot introduced a new character and was filmed using a tri-pod as we had
realised the poor quality of previous shots. Fortunately this shot happened to include
the characters whole face allowing viewers to see his importance. This was a much
more clean/ professional looking shot which already shows progression from when we
started. The only other thing to think of is the type of shot e.g. over the shoulder shot
rather than a mid master shot.

5. The final shot clearly showed not much thought went in to the characters facial
expression, at times they were lifeless and others smiling. This is something we really
needed to think about as our whole opening scene was mainly the characters facial
expressions to show his emotions. To resolve the lack of expression through the
characters face we had to cut the shots short making it look unprofessional and
rushed.

6. Overall I have learnt quite a lot about filming
since my preliminary task, including things like;
camera positioning/ angle, character facial
expression, the importance of different shots and
how they can represent power, the importance of
camera quality/ stability and when editing to
keep a range of different length shots to keep
viewers attention.