Evaluation of Preliminary Task

I think overall we all worked really well as a group and got on with the task in hand. We all had some involvement in the making of the preliminary task and worked hard as a team. I learnt a lot from making this task, like all the different angles and why they were used to make the film look more professional and run more smoothly. I also learnt about how to film properly, like how to keep the camera steady and pan around to make sure you get all the actors in the shot. I also learnt how to use iMovie and edit the preliminary task which was quite hard as first but once I had done a few few scenes I felt more confident with editing.

The things that I thought went well was the filming, we got all the shots that we wanted and we did it really quickly without any problems. We also came up with the script quickly too, and I think we had a good storyline. I think our storyboards were also successful because they showed each shot frame by frame so it was really easy to follow, which I think made the filming easier because we knew exactly what we were doing. I also think that we demonstrated the different camera techniques really well, and the end product looked very well done.

Things that could have gone better are, some of the filming was a bit shaky as we had limited space were we decided to film. Also some of the shots didn't quite match to the shot before so it stood out and showed that we had moved the camera, but the editing that we did helped to mask this.Our group also had some problems with getting our camera footage on to iMovie as we got it on once but somehow it managed to delete itself and we had to got through this long process of converting it so it would work in the Macs. We made sure to back it up the next time we put the footage onto the Macs! This problem delayed us but we managed to catch up in the end.

If we were to do this again to improve I would change the setting as we had minimal space to move the camera around, which made it hard to demonstrate the shot reverse shot technique. But for our first piece of work I think it went really well.