Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

This task should demonstrate a match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

The brief for my preliminary exercise consisted of making a short clip which involves filming and editing a character opening the door, walking inside and exchanging a couple lines of dialogue with another person with in the room. Overall I believe that my production met the brief correctly and working with a group meant that we had to allocate the planning resources separately; therefore Me, Shervin and Zubair brought all our unique ides into the production to make it the best we can.

As a group we concentrated on the brief and settled one main narrative which involved two characters meeting in a building to exchange dialogue. Me and Shervin played the main two characters. Shervin plays the character who walks to the block where I will already be waiting; and Shervin tells me that he has been a victim of a robbery by another character known as Doobz but he is not shown in this clip. We kept the dialogue limited in the script as we wanted to leave an aspect of the suspense in the production, as a result minimising what was said but leaving just enough for the audience to understand what has happened to Shervin. The storyboard gave us a guideline to the main shots we had to take and how and where we should take them, added to the fact that howl long the shot should be. in addition, this shot list helped me make the filming process faster and less time consuming which let me spend more time on the making the production reach its full potential.

In my opinion one of our strongest points of my production was the editing as it kept the narrative very fluent and straight forward for the audience. The slow pace of transitions in the beginning helped build suspense and cuts such as fade to black allowed the audience to understand that there is a passing of time in the clip. We also had a few good shots such as the extreme close up of my phone in the beginning which was well focused and the audience could clearly read the text on the screen which said "Come to the block". Secondly the match on action shot of me entering the block was extremely fluid and well paced making the production seem really professional. The 180 degree rule was shot successfully as well where the angles of the shots were correct and helped the flow of the conversation between me and Shervin. 

The feedback we got as a group after the production screening was very positive and as Mr Halsey said there wasn't much he could say about our production because it looked very professional and was edited perfectly. However we did notice one error in the clip which was the match on action for Shervin entering the scene, we noticed that it was slightly too early and it was noticeable for the audience once identified. Also there was another mistake I had found which was the 180 degree shot of my face while speaking to Shervin; this shot had a lot of extra framing in it which distracted the audience and not focus on what I was saying. This also made the shot look rushed and unprofessional but it can be prevented in the future where I can focus on the character by zooming in the frame to show only the character and not any distractions around him/her.