Preliminary Task evaluation

Our task was to record a short film of someone telling another person a 'knock, knock' joke.In this we had to include match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180- degree rule. In our film we used match on action by filming one cast member walking towards and opening a door. we used shot/reverse shot when the cast members where exchanging dialogue and the 180-degree rule when filming behind the shoulder ensuring we don't break the rule by filming on different sides.

To prepare for filming we created a story board. We did this so we could visually see our ideas and if they where going to work, we produced 12 story boards with hand drawn pictures and writing to explain the picture and shots that will be used. On the story boards we wrote if the shot was interior/exterior, location, camera shot, camera movement, camera angle, cast required for this shot and any other notes. Our pre production planning was helpful as we could follow them when we where filming ensuring we didn't miss any key parts out and we could also show cast members what we wanted them to do when they didn't understand verbal communication. 

The filming process itself didn't go as smoothly as it could because we had problems with groups and people being absent and leaving the group so we had to form a new group and start from the beginning filming as quickly as possible to catch up with the other groups in class and be at the same stage. Although when we did record a new film the process went ok but we couldn't meet a high standard as it had to be rushed and everything we had previously planned couldn't be used as their where certain location shots which we couldn't access on the day we where filming. 

The editing stage was difficult at first as I had never used IMovie before to edit films. At the start we had problems uploading our footage on to IMovie as it only accepted half of the films, we then had to create a folder and put all the footage in and then select the folder on IMovie. Apart from this the editing process was ok and I could easily cut parts out that I didn't want and add music to the background.

  

Overall I think my short film meets the expectations of the set brief as it includes everything that is asked. The parts that I think are the strongest is the over the shoulder shots when the joke is being told and the music I have chose makes the short film strong as I think it suits the mood of the film we want the audience too see and feel. The weaknesses are the quality as we filmed with I Pad's parts of the film are shaky and their is poor quality throughout because the cameras aren't very good on the I Pads. An area of development that I can use on my main task is too film everything as a whole to make editing easier to cut out jumps and use a better quality camera.

Here is our final piece