Evaluation Task 7

from the progression of the preliminary task to our full product being the film we have progressed significantly. Our prelim task was based on the idea of a criminal being questioned by a detective where as our final film was based on the genre of British Gangster. Our preliminary task was very basic with there being only dialogue, filmed in one location, and being filmed over an afternoon period as opposed by our final production that takes place over a longer time period, different locations, and much more dialogue. within the Preliminary task we used the 180 degree rule, Match on action, and shot/reverse shot. In our final product we also included these aspects however, we did it on a greater scale due to the fact that it was more complex than the Prelim task as there were more characters, locations, and actions being performed, what differs between both productions is that the final product has background music, which is non diegetic, and so the characters in the film cannot hear the music and its purpose is to add tension to the film for the benefit to the audience.

Sketch of Prelim Task

As seen on the picture above which represents the location and camera positions we used during our preliminary task, we used multiple camera positions and a number of different shots in these positions, in doing so we enabled the story to continue and progress. as seen on the picture we used match on action when our character opens the door, with there being a close up of his hand on the door handle, to entering the room. the 180 degree rule enables our conversation between our two characters to run smoothly as the cameras are only allowed to be positioned on one side of the invisible line, ensuring that the audience watching will not get confused or possibly disorientated due to random camera positions and shots, therefore the rule creates some order. on top of using the 180 degree rule we used shot reverse shot, which switches between the speaker and the listener as one character speaks, by using this emphasis is given to emotion and how characters have positioned themselves


Other aspects that differ between our two productions would be the shot lists, as the preliminary task used less shots than we used in the final production, the the shots we used during the prelim task included close up, medium shot, a long shot and a pan shot, our final production used these shots however on a greater scale.