Welcome back! Today I will evaluate our preliminary task! As told from the previous chapter in my media journey, there were positives and negatives to our preliminary task. I will slowly talk through our preliminary tasks starting with the positives and negatives.
POSITIVES
Firstly, We had good feedback from the way the film started. We were complemented on the angle of the opening shot in which was slightly diagonal to the door (00:04) which, ultimately, gave a focus or subject to the frame, which was the door and eventually the actor opening it. The match-on-action (00:07) that followed this was correct too and did not contain any continuity errors. Next, a pan (00:09) followed this which was complemented too as it was smooth thanks to our camera man. Lastly, our second pan (00:52) was smooth too which was finally complemented.
NEGATIVES
However, we had a few negatives. There was a continuity error early on when James Rhodes (Teacher) looked at the camera. (00:04)
The next moment in which there was a problem was when the two actors started to exchange dialogue, there was a white balance issue. This is because the camera was set to auto balance the image when filming. (00:16)
As you can see, the second image is much more warmer because of white balance being automatic changed within the cameras settings.
The next negative point about our preliminary task was the framing of the dialogue exchange. There was too much wasted space within the frames. (00:20)
That concludes the negatives of our preliminary task!
IMPROVEMENTS
If we was to make our preliminary task again I would re film the opening scene so that James Rhodes (Teacher) is looking at his laptop and not out the window.We would also improve the white balance of the video, there are two ways we could do this. Firstly, we use a sheet of white paper and place it in front of the camera before filming so that it takes the white balance of the paper rather than the room. On the other hand, we could have used a colour correction when editing to change the white balance of the video there.
Next time: I will talk about UK Film Distribution! See you then!
