Preliminary Task

Welcome back! Today I will show and evaluate my preliminary task! 

SPECIFICATION 

In our preliminary task we had to make a short film that included a person walking through a door, proceeding to walk across the room then to sit down and exchange some dialogue with another person. Within this, we had to make sure that it followed filming rules, contained a match-on-action, contained shit/reversed shot, had not continuity errors, had at least two lines of dialogue and held the camera steady.

TASK COMPLETED!
There we go! A finished preliminary task! I Hope you enjoy it.

MISTAKES WITHIN OUR TASK

There were problems with our task. We did not follow the 180 degree rule as we filmed on the two sides of the line which was wrong. 

Here, I have circled where the camera was in the previous shot, showing we broke the 180 degree rule.

Another mistake was the white balance with the two shots. As you can see the first shot has a different colour to the second shot. This is because of auto white balance on the camera's which we was not aware of during filming. 

One more mistake we that occured was the amount of space in the two frames. There was too much wasted space around the two actors. 

IMPROVEMENTS 

Firstly, we needed to improve our dialogue scene. To do this we would need to film on one side of the 180 degree rule line to follow this correctly. Next, we needed to improve our white balance by adding some colour corrections in the editing phase of the task. Finally, we needed to bring the camera inwards when filming the shot/reverse shot so that the frame didn't have a lot of wasted space. 

PEER FEEDBACK

When peer feedback was presented to us, we saw a clear indication of the 180 degree rule being broke. We also saw that people noticed a few continuity errors that were not. Overall, people felt that the task didn't need to be filmed again, as it followed the specification well.

Next time: I will evaluate my preliminary task! See you then!