Question 7 of Evaluation

1)      Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

-          Our brief for the preliminary task was all about continuity. This involved “filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue”. The task had to demonstrate exhibit match on action, 180-degree rule and shot/reverse shot.

-          This was quite a different task to our main one (the two minute opening). With our main task we had to film the opening of a new fiction film that was a maximum of two minutes long and it had to include titles.

-          When looking at these two tasks, there are definitely elements of match-on-action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. Also, due to our preliminary exercise we were able to identify and use different shots in our two minute opening sequence. For example we used high angle shots, close ups, medium close up shots, long shots and many others. We used these different methods because of the many different aspects of filming we learnt about before, during and after our preliminary exercise.

-          I believe we have greatly improved since our preliminary exercise. For example, our match-on-action sequences are smoother and we used shot-reverse-shot slightly differently than in our preliminary exercise.