Here I will evaluate my opening two minutes against my prelimination task in which I had also produced a video diary and evaluation. So here is what I had learnt from the prelimination task which ensured that my group and I didn't make the same mistakes.
The first obvious problem we had was failing to abide with the 180 degree rule which occurred when Mohammed was sitting down and because we done this, it had looked like Mohammed suddenly switched where he was sitting. This is shown below where it looks as if his seating position had changed. This 180 degree rule is one which can be easily avoidable but if it isn't the it can mess up the whole scen. There have been occations where films had deviated from this rule but it is because they had a reason.
We had learnt how easy it was to go against this rule and so during the editing stage where we had a number of shots to choose from for each specific small part, we kept asking ourselves whether we had crossed the 180 imaginary line and this meant that we didn't deviate from this simple, yet powerful rule.
The second problem from this task was the continuous shaking of the camera. This reduced the realism of the video in the preliminary task. This again was easily dealt with. We used a tripod firstly which reduced the shaking by a huge percentage and made a massive difference but we understood that to get the biggest marks, we must use the most complicated angles for which a tripod wasn't suitable and nor was the camcorder from the media class so we set out to but one and we found a HD Samsung camcorder with a specific feature that we were looking for known as anti-shake. This helped us amazingly, especially when we were trying to give Aran more prevalence using the over the shoulder shot and extreme close up.
What helped with the preliminary task which we had bought forward to the opening two minutes is the use of camera shots. We used our fair share of camera shots and really mastered some of them. The focus of the preliminary task to open the door via a match on action shot and a short conversation. We had used a lot more shot types though such as shot/reverse/shot extreme close ups, over the shoulder shots and high and low angled shots.
We took this experience on with us to the actual filming as well as a whole array of new shots which made us find the ideal shot for the right moment.
Another thing that we had learnt from our preliminary and took into this was how valuable time management was. We filmed very late in our preliminary and this cost us valuable editing time whereas in our actual filming we set a diary of what we were going to achieve and by what date. The editing stage took longer than the filming but because we filmed early and efficiently, we had time left over to re-film the ending. You can identify the fact that we started late in the preliminary task as we didn't have time to correct the crossing of the 180 degree line.
Thanks to the mistakes that we had made in the prelimination task, we could easily correct this and it ultimately helped our finished product shun out more than it would have if we didn't do it. We may have still known these shots but we would not have any practice thus lack confidence to include a bold shots but the prelimination gave us that confidence and was very helpful.
This is my final blog in my year 12 Media Studies coursework. It was a great learning experience and helped me develop in so many ways.
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