Preliminary Evaluation

Evaluation of Preliminary task:

For our Preliminary task we used an police interview clip:
Name: THE INTERVIEW
Characters: Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
                   Carter Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lUm_T5vlWo

QUALITY OF:

STEADINESS OF SHOTS

In terms of holding the shot steadily, we could have improved drastically on this. Many of the shots were unsteady and effected the quality of the clip. This is because we didn't use an appropriate tripod - the tripod we chose was broken and didn't hold the camera in place. Because of this the majority of our shots suffered shaky and unsteady quality. One of the shots was so bad that we had to use the stabiliser effect on Final Cut X Pro, which supplied a satisfactory upgrade to our original footage. When performing the actual opening 2 minutes we will ensure that we have a decent tripod, this will allow us to perform our shots to the highest possible quality. Here is the example of the shot that we edited on Final Cut X Pro.

QUALITY OF FRAMING SHOTS

The quality of framing shots could've been heavily improved, a lot of the shots features unnecessary

information. Also, although our story board was approved of and the shots worked well with each other, the execution of this wasn't satisfactory. Again, the use of a good tripod would've helped enormously especially with the close ups. Also we used a canted angle shot even thought it wasn't coinciding with the content of the clip - they are normally used to give a dazed/dreamy effect and this did not work with the shot. In our official opening 2 minutes we will carefully storyboard our sequence and ensure that our framing works with the shots. Also when filming this we will make sure our framing matches the framing shown in the storyboard.

                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                         

This is the canted angle shot: although the shot was executed fairly well it did not work with the content of the shot. To improve this we will make sure we use appropriate shots to convey particular messages.

Here is the example of how our extreme close didn't work. The original idea was that we would get an extreme close up of his mouth only. However this wasn't executed well and the characters head is cut off by the frame.

Here we can see how unnecessary information was included in the shot. The shot would've worked a lot better if we used an extreme close up featuring only the hand and the phone in frame.

QUALITY OF EDITING

Our editing throughout the sequence was satisfactory, however the continuity of the clips wasn't as smooth as as we desired. Our match on match action wasn't successful and we have learned from this as the shots didn't work together. However we did manage to successfully edit most of our shots together successfully. We successfully managed to perform a reverse shot, we also stuck to the 180 degree rule. From this task we have learnt to successfully do match on action shots and we have learned from our filming mistakes.