Evaluating preliminary exercise

I thought our group did quite well in this task as we did it quite quickly and we found the editing quite simple. However some mistakes we made whilst we were editing were that when we did a pan shot of me, my head was cut off and when there was an over shoulder shot of Michaela, some of her head was also cut off which tells us that we needed to have the camera positioned a bit higher. What we didn't realise was that when we did a shot-reverse-shot, Michaela's hand was in a different position and we didn't even notice this when we were editing. This has taught me that we have to be more accurate when we edit our 2 minute film. What also happened was that the audio repeated, so Michaela ended up sayin Em twice. Although we made these mistakes I think it is good because we can now learn from them and make sure we do not make them in our 2 minute film.

Our preliminary exercise video

Filming our prelim exercise

In wednesday's lesson we did our prelim exercise and we did it very quickly which I am proud of. It was interesting to see how you do not have to shoot scenes chronologically and that it is easier to start filming before dialogue is introduced to it is easier to edit. I am now really looking forward to filming our 2 minute film and I am also excited to do some editing on the prelim exercise.

Observing prelim exercises

In last wednesdays lesson we observed group one performing there preliminary exercise, they did this well as they only had to do a few takes of each shot. Having watched this I don't think our group needs to change anything to our storyboard, as it is quite simple as it is.