Prelim - Evaluation

Creating a prelim for our coursework was a really helpful and informative task to do. Before we start we had to plan it and create a story board, which later on would help us to be more organized in what we are doing and to know what and when we need to film. After deciding what our scene is going to be like and who will the characters be, we started filming the idea we came up with, which was really good considering the props that we had (a brief case). Me and Abi were behind the camera, but everyone in our group contributed into the decision making about what angles and what shots to use. I think I wasn't really good at filming because I am still learning about the different types of shots. However, I understand the 180 degree rule and we followed to rule throughout the filming. After that, we had to edit our videos and create the final piece of work. We had a really helpful tutorial on how to edit all the files and combine them together. I would say that I was best at editing, knowing when to cut a certain scene and which videos of the same scene would be better to use.

Our complete film doesn't look like its best, mostly because that was our first project and we were not exactly aware of how to make it perfect. I think our filming was good but I would suggest that next time, in order to improve, we should try and film less videos as the editing would then be much more easier. Also, I would use more and different kinds of shots to make it clear that I understand them and their purpose. For the editing part, I think our beginning looks good but our ending could improve a lot since we didn't use our time efficiently and we ran out of time for completing the task. If I was to complete the project again, I would use my time efficiently and have less and better filmed videos, so that we can complete the whole project and decide carefully what shots would be best. For my big production piece I have learnt that storyboarding helps a lot with managing what we need to do and saves time because the whole idea is already decided and organised when we start filming.