After careful analysis and observation over our own work; and peer assessment from our fellow classmates; some written and some through video blogs, I have devised a final analysis assessing my group's prelimanary task. Overall, I believe it was successful. There are some errors in which i will address however this has only taught us to think through things really carefully and closely analyse every shot that we do. Being the first time as a group working together on filming and editing, I feel that we worked well however had some distractions.
I feel we followed the brief well, we had some good continuity however there was a slight failure in one of the shots which i will address. We completed well the task of creating a piece of dialogue, consisting of two characters in which one walks in and exchanges conversation with the other character. The cinematography aspect of it was done excellently.
We used a wide range of proffessional-looking shots. We used them all in ways that would reflect continuity and so that the whole sequence looked proffessional. We used the shots of; extreme close up, close up, medium, long shot, extreme long shot, two shot, over the shoulder, high and low angle etc. We also followed the 180 rule well in the conversational part in which is vividly evident. Match on action and shot reverse shot was also used and very effective. Continuity editing enabled us to cut footage out in which was not needed as continuity was not well as they did not follow, however we did error in this on a part of the sequence.
We found as a group that the main imperfection of our piece that was apparent to the other groups assessing our work was the continuity. It was the part in which the door closes, then in another shot it closes again. I think a major fault in this was that Luke did not stay in the same position in the sequence of opening the door and everytime the camera was stopped he would move, then when it was going to be filmed again, he would attempt to be in the right position. Also the lighting changed from outside to inside, which made the scene confusing. We thought the idea of slamming the door again as Luke walks up to the desk was really good, however we didn't think through that we had already filmed the door being slammed. Background noise was also a problem, however this can't fully be helped by us as we are working in an environment where there are lots of surroundings which we are unable to control. So there would be clips in which had noise then others that didn't.
We didn't do much with the editing, we purely just pieced each shot together. As it was such a simple task we didn't feel the need to do a great deal of editing such as, green screen (which i had done in my GCSE task which worked brilliantly), changing the colour (which was also favourable in my GCSE task), background noises, diagetic and non diagetic. Also a soundtrack. Little effort was put into this.
We learnt a lot from this task which I certainly will take on board when completing our group task. These main points are to fully think through each shot and why it is effective, to have high quality and complex editing to give a proffessional look, have a interesting plot and to just work better as a team in not getting distracted as we did run out of time and had to rush.
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