Preliminary task evaluation

As I group of 4 I feel that we all pitched in a fair amount and worked hard to make our film to reach the best of its ability. In my opinion the film we produced flowed very well, and had a continuous rhythm about it from start to finish. For example at the beginning as I sip out of the mug, it starts as medium wide shot, then changes to a close up mid shot, however we did spend a long time making sure my arm was in the same place both times so it looked natural even though they were two different shots from two different cameras. Another example would be when after Jo speaks to me it starts as a close up however the shot then changes to a medium wide shot and everything is again kept in the same place therefore the viewer will not be confused.

We tried to do as much shot reverse shot as we could however we did not want to do too much as we feel the viewer would want to get the mood of the room around the characters. We did use the 180 degree rule because we placed the cameras so they would never take a shot from behind the characters. We used these techniques so the viewer and feel the characters emotions and feel part of the film.

I feel as a group we all worked very well together, we all contributed the right amount, supplying each other with ideas, talking them through then deciding if we feel it would slot in with the film well. We all considered everyone’s inputs, and made no decisions; I feel there was no “leader” of the group and no one who was left out.

If we had the chance to film the piece again I feel we would be able to add more effects to the film as we wasn’t sure how to use the programme we did to the best of its ability. Also I feel as a group we would decide to change the location of where we filmed the piece and maybe get people from outside the group to feature in the background.





We didn’t really plan the film, it was more improvising. As we was walking to the location where we filmed we got a rough idea what we was meant to do and what props to use however we feel the task didn’t need to be made complicated as it would be unnecessary and could confuse the viewer.

As a group we all felt using more transitions would make the film flow a lot better. The transitions we used included ones which showed a fade in, fade out effect for the credit then we simply just switched cameras between myself and Jo.

When editing the piece for the first time, I felt this lesson was to mainly get used to the programme which none of us had used before and see what it could offer us. We used Adobe Premier which none of us was familiar with therefore I feel next time we will be able to improve on videos as we will build our knowledge of the programme.

I feel we all have learnt a lot about using different cameras and media software’s during this task, as we all learnt something new and became more familiar which what camera angle would be best at what point.