Prelim Evaluation

When filming our prelim there where a few points we had to ensure we included before we added our own creativity. These points were:

• Movement/walking: We tried to make our transitions of movement as fluent as possible for example when Steven was walking up the stairs, walking down the hall and then the first person perspective of Steven approaching “the antidote”.

• Conversation: For our conversation we included a close up of my face when I was talking and then an over the shoulder view of me pointing the gun at Steven when he responded to my dialogue.

• Entering a different environment (walking through a door): When filming this part we had to ensure that we got the timing and positioning right for the next shot so that the transition remains smooth.

We used a fairly wide range of shots when filming but the prelim mainly consisted of wide, medium, close up and over the shoulder shots as we didn’t feel the need to include many other shots for our specific ideas.

Although we did consider the mise-en-scene and sound we felt quite limited in the school environment and had to complete this prelim within a small time scale so we did not have the time to move tables and chairs out of the room for filming. If we did have more time we would of completely suited the room for the prelim including a laboratory scene in which the antidote is found.

As our group only consisted of me and Steven it made filming very difficult. So when it came to the over the shoulder shot we called in a friend (Luke Doyle) to film that specific shot. Other than that me and Steven tried our best to get the most effective shots as possible to add hints of tension to our action-thriller type prelim but as this was the first time either of us had ever filmed in this way. Some of the shots were slightly “rusty” and shaky but we have learned from this.

If you look at my prelim planning at the bottom of the blogg you will find that our shots do not meet the specifications of our storyboard this was slightly due lack of costume but mainly because we did try film according to the storyboard but we used trial and error and thought that the shots/ideas we used where much better than what we originally planned.

In conclusion I believe there is a lot of room for improvement in our prelim for example mise-en-scene, improved dialogue and more fluent shots but I don’t think it was too bad for a first try.