Preliminary Task - The Review

Preliminary Task

The Review

After seeing the film piece at the end once its been edited, I was pleased with the outcome however not as much I thought I would be. This is due to it turning out to be shorter than we expected and everything is seemed a bit rushed. Before the editing was done, the piece did seem to last longer and made sense. However once the editing had be done, you cannot really tell with what’s going on but can pick up some things as we are talking. This is because as soon as Female #1 walks in it skips straight to her being sat down without even showing the atmosphere which suggests that there is a person in the room or a place to sit. Apart from this, the rest of the clip is satisfying from the camera girls point of view as she was able to get all the angle shots in and from the people acting, we were able to do our part by exchanging some dialogue. We also included opening a door at the start and walking across a room.

The acting from myself and my group member could have been a lot better as it didn’t seem as if were really involved in the conversation. Also you can hardly hear our voices in some parts where you lose what we are saying and the audience is thrown off balance. We could have been able to rectify that mistake by speaking louder and clearly so that the audience would have been able to hear our conversation. From our acting and body language, the audience would easily be able to point many mistakes suggesting that we are not professionals. In my main task, I will make sure that the acting is seen as professional and is perfect so that the audience wont notice and will not be let down. For this to happen, I may have to myself, have to get in lots of practice or get a more skilled performer to act in piece.

We managed to get all the camera angles that we needed and the other specific tasks that were included in the brief. Apart from one of the angle shots which required the camera girl getting a over shoulder shot from an awkward position, they were clearly presented. I wouldn’t change the shots we did as you can clearly see which angle shots were being used. Again these were also a bit rushed and kind of impulsive which didn’t give the audience enough time to get everything in. Out timing of each shots could have been better.

The editing overall was not all bad, however it could have been better as the way it was presented didn’t seem to make sense. Many of the editing cut most of the parts out which were quite significant to the scene. The scene was supposed to be for at least a minute where as ours was only 30seconds due to the many reasons including the editing.

Overall I’m satisfied with the piece as it does fulfil everything that we had to do but I will change a lot of things if I had to do it again as I did learn a lot from this time. Seeing as it was our first attempt, I think we did try our best and learnt a lot so that we know what we have to next time.