Preliminary evaluation

Preproduction

My group consisted of Tom Jack and I, our task was to show a person walking along and then having a conversation with someone; the piece is to contain match on action and the 180’ rule. Before doing a storyboard we exchanged ideas to get a ruff picture of what we wanted. We didn’t write a script though we now see that we probably should have done. When making the storyboard we went to the location and we thought it would use to help visualise the scenes. Our roles in the piece were: Tom as the director and had a small acting part in the conversation, Jack as the camera man and I was the star/main actor. The reasoning behind our roles was Tom had a lot of the good ideas, I had my large coat and Jack just wanted to do it.

Production

When filming we did our self-assigned roles well with some shots requiring tom to be on the camera so Jack can be used to signal action. We used a reasonable variety of shots like low angle, tracking and close up shots. Most scenes required around 3 tries before we got a good enough one or one without any mistakes. We did encounter one problem: when we continued some of the outdoor shooting the weather was different and I was wearing different clothes, so ended up doing it all again. I had quite a bit of contribution being the star and giving some productive ideas.

Post-production

For editing we used Adobe premiere Pro cs4. Tom and jack made most of the decisions because I was ill during the editing process but we did decide together pre- and during production on certain things that would be done in editing. We learned how to make a person fade in and out whilst moving with the background being the same. We had a problem with the 180’ rule which was easily solved with some editing.

Evaluation

Our piece was reasonably successful though during editing we realised we didn’t do the 180’ rule correctly but it was a quick fix. The finished product fulfilled the brief well and we managed to pull off the special effects we wanted.

Hopefully when it comes to the main piece we will have less problems and I would like to see if we could implement the rule of thirds and types of shots/shooting into the main piece.