Group - Evaluation 7 - Preliminary Task: What We've Learnt.

Preliminary task-

The brief for our preliminary task was...

-The use of continuity editing needed to be incorporated into out footage, this means the illusion of a continuous line of action.

-The use of a short conversation was part of the brief, for this we chose to have two separate sets of dialogue as a conversation did not fit the conventions of our style of opening.

-Opening a door was another part of our brief, this was an example of continuity editing used in our task. Here is an example of this from our task...

-Experimenting with different camera angles and techniques was also part of our brief, this includes shots such as CU, LS, MS, Canted angles, Tracking shots and effects used within editing. Here is an example of this...



Choosing the genre, costume and props were key parts in producing a creative response to the brief. The genre we chose was psychological thriller which matched the genre we were planning to do for our opening. There were some limitations of this...

-As we were in school we did not have the access to any other locations other than on the school grounds, we tried to overcome this by using places which look as if they are not in a school such as the road and zebra crossing outside the school.

-The costume was also restricted by the fact we were in school as we were in our school uniform thus could not show character exposition through costume.

-We faced the same problems with props which is why we decided to use effect's when editing our task in order to make a creative response. Here is an example of this...

The planning we used for our preliminary task was...

-Looking over previous filming experiences such as the Wilderness wood reccie and identifying shots and specific features which we thought worked well and planned to use in our preliminary task.

-Thinking about the narrative of our preliminary task, for example writing a script, although there is not a lot of dialogue in ours.

-Finding a location to film our task, we chose to use the road outside the school as well as the stairs and corridor. Here is an example of this

-We then done some practice shots around the school so that we were fully prepared for when we actually filmed our task, from this we could identify what worked well and what we were going to re create in our real thing.

The narrative of our task follows the storyline of a girl being confused and conflicted by her own mind, this is shown by the use of effects that we added during the editing such as blurs and colour washes. The filming also anchors our narrative as we have used a variety of shots in order to create the sense of confusion.

Challenges and difficulties that we faced when doing our preliminary task were...

-Finding a suitable location as we were limited being at school, to overcome this problem we decided to try and find areas of the school which looked least like a school environment such as the road outside of school and the stairs.

-Another problem was the costume, again as we were in a school environment we were restricted as to what we could use, in order to overcome this we ensured that costume would not be a big part of our narrative therefore making it irrelevant.

-Another problem we faced was the continuity editing of our piece, neither of us had previous experience in editing therefore found this hard, in order to overcome this we ensured that we left our selves enough time to edit ensuring that we could overcome any problems we faced.

An evaluation of the piece overall...

-Strengths: I think that the effects used in our preliminary task such as the colours flashing worked really well and gave us inspiration for our final piece. This helped to create the sense of confusion that we were aiming for. The music also worked well in order to create this effect.

-Weaknesses: I think that the main weakness of our piece is the continuity editing although this could be easily worked on it does let the task down as a whole.

Our preliminary task...