Overview of Preliminary

Throughout the preliminary task the four of us took turns in being the cameraman as it gave us all a chance to create a variety of shots and learn from our own mistakes. We all had our go at editing the final piece which allowed us all to put in some sort of imput. Our decision making was also very good, such as our idea to add music into the piece to create the tension and eerie atmosphere that we were trying to achieve. Nobody made a decision by themselves which i feel was crucial in making our piece of film great, we all pitched in and if we didnt all decide it was the best thing to do, we simply didnt do it. The overall standard of our videa is in my own view, a high quality for beginers such as ourselves. There are a few things that we still need to touch upon (like removing camera equipment out of the shot!) but throughout the preliminary we all gained new skills and bonded well as a team.

The things i feel we need to work on are only very minor but yet can still be crucial in providing a sense of authensicity to our upcoming final piece of film. Firstly characterisation. We did not assign a real authentic role to the two characters. There was no protagonist or antagonist or real basic storyline. So for our real final piece we need to dig deeper into characterisation and find out the best and most suitable clothing etc to put our actors in.

Actors is another key aspect to look at for our final piece. We used two of our group members for the preliminary and neither of them had any experience in acting whatsoever. This can make the piece of film look less authentic and realistic, so we made a group decision to get an actor in for our final peice.

The final thing i feel we need to work on, and again its to do with authenticity, would be to check our setting correctly before shooting. As you can see in our preliminary lying on the floor is a camera stand case! This makes the film look less authentic and makes us look a lot more like amateurs!