Group - Evaluation (7)

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The preliminary task was one of the first pieces of narrative film any of us had done and so many things came as a surprise to us and there were many challenges.

What we immedietly found was how important planning and time management is as we quickly realized that time was slipping by quickly while we still didn't know the details of how we were to portray our story. As a result of this, our preliminary task was somewhat rushed but we ensured that on our main task we had plenty of time to get the footage we needed after having carefully planned what each shot is going to be.

We also discovered that we had a lot to learn when it came to continuity techniques. In our preliminary task we were required to include dialogue and the opening of a door. This seemed simple enough but we had to learn and employ techniques such as the 180 degree rule where in dialogue you must only turn the camera 180 degrees maximum from its starting position, otherwise the characters look like they're next to each other. Similarly, we had to take a lot of things into account when considering continuity, such as things like what foot the character stepped out of the previous frame on, the lighting, etc. Again, for our main task we ensured that we took these things into account in our planning.

In terms of the soundtrack we found that it was quite difficult to find a copyright-free soundtrack that would fit our piece, but it would also be too time consuming to compose our own. In light of this, some compromises had to be made in the soundtrack and we often found that, while we didn't find exactly what we were looking for, we did find some that worked just as well.

Preliminary Task with Evaluation Voiceover

Preliminary Task with Evaluation Voiceover