Evaluation 7

Evaluation

7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

On this shot from ‘ phone call‘, you can only see the scene which is not useful. If we had films the whole of the phone( with the numbers) it would have been useful. The camera shot if really plain with does not create tension. The phone is only on the table and you do not even see the girl that picks up the phone on the same shot. It looks simple and not professional. The idea of this shot was to show who is calling but it did not show really well.
This is a photo from the duo where the phone rings and the girl picks the phone up. To make this shot really effective we had a close up of the phone ringing to show who is calling. Then we cut to the phone again but in mid shot and then we track the girl picking up the phone. So in one shot we had to things in it which made the film even more effective. The mise en scene we used in there was the towel where the phone is on top. You can see the phone in detailed because you can see the buttons, the towel and the scene which is way better then the one in ’phone call’. The phone is not straight but in a different angle which you will not see a phone in a straight angle. So this shot looks way more better and natural then the one in ‘phone call’.


In the phone call because we did not have much time we did not take much shots which made our film not good. The shot types we shoots were not right at all and did not fit into our film. Example Clara is on the phone and we just showed the side of there face which was not useful because on the phone she gets some thing shocking so to show her shock on her face. To show this shock we had to shoot the film on the table to show her face. There was not a multiple clips so we had to use the one on the side. Another example is when Sheree comes into the class room, the camera outside the class room door and Sheree passes the camera and walks in. This shot is good but not really good because when Sheree gets in and turns her back to the camera which I see this shot as a useless shot because there is nothing going on. Instead of having this shot really long we should of have the camera inside the class room and shoot the film there so we can have Sheree walking in though the door and then a cut to her inside the class room walking towards Clara. This would of made our film more effective then before. Another thing that does not look good is the lighting. When we filmed ‘ phone call’ we did not use any lighting because it was only a practical so we only used the class room light which did not come out good at all. I think this way because when Sheree and Clara are having a conversation you can she Clara’s face but its really bright and when shooting Sheree we could not see her face because we did not have the right equipment. The dialog was not clearer to hear it as well.


When filming ‘the duo’ , we had more then the amount of time we had filming for ‘phone call’ which gave us the opportunity to film more shots the shots we had fit into our film really well because it was where the audience would want the camera to be. We had more then the amount of shots we needed just in case some thing happens to the shot we were going to for our film. The part I really like from ‘the duo’ is when the girl is on the phone and walking towards her bed room. To do this shot when the girl is walking towards her room we were going to have the camera on the side but I did not like the way it will look like because on the phone the boy friend is saying to get out of the house, some one is coming to kill you. So when some one hears these word they will be shocked so to show this shock we had to have the camera on her face (the camera walking backwards). The lighting was really good because we were experimenting even when we were filming because when we used the light there was all ways a shadow which was casting all the time. When doing this we had to change the lighting angle all the time which worked at the end. It was hard to film at night but at the end it worked. The light was really good because we could see the characters faces and we did not make the whole place light up because it will look like its in a day time which it was not. We did have difficulties but we coped with it and we done it really well. Because the light was casting a shadow we had to change angles of the lighting or we used two lights. In the duo you can hear all most everything cleanly.

By doing this what I have learnt is that the more detail we show in the film the more better it is. I have learnt that we should not make everything prefect because it will not look normal. When we done this before filming our actual film, as a group we through our film was really good but now I can see the miss takes we had done and I can see that our filming skills has improved. For ‘ the duo’ I think we have done really well but some parts were not really good. I think this looks good now but in the future if we do filming again I think I will think that ‘the duo’ does not look professional which this shows that as we film we gain new skills which I am really happy about.