Caitlin’s Media Preliminary Evaluation

I felt that our video was very successful because we shot the film in black and white, there were a couple of reasons for this, one of the reasons was that it matched our video and the feeling we were trying to create for the audience. The second reason was that even though our white balance was set every time we moved our camera, it sometimes still didn’t match. So we decided to use black and white to give it a cleaner look.

In this film we used two match on action shots, one of them was used at the beginning when May (the female character) walked through the door, this turned out well because she kept the right pace throughout and matched really well. The second match on action worked really well when May throws the crisps at Rhys (male character) this is because we took our time in editing so that there weren’t two crisp landing noises which was really effective once we got it right. During this filming Charlie, May and I ensured that the 180 degree rule wasn’t broken while filming. We stayed on one side of the characters, at the beginning she sat down on the sofa and the camera was one side of the sofa following May. We then had an establishing shot to ensure that the audience knew what side we were going to film on the rest of the shots. We also used shot reverse shot effectively and we used a point of view shot rather then an over the shoulder shot, this is because we agreed that it would look better because without these point of view shots the film wouldn’t have the same effects.

I think the continuity was good; I felt that it flowed together nicely this is because we kept the pace the same and when we did match on action shots, we ensured that we kept the pace the same so that we could edit them together easier so that they matched. I also felt that the we used close ups well because we could show the different characters feelings and emotions through mise en scene and their actions with little words. In edidting we decided to add sounds in garage band which I felt were very effective, this is because they matched what was happening on the screen and didn't feel out of place, this was a big risk which became very successful.

However we had some unsuccessful parts in our filming, at times our framing was out and it looked like soemthing was going to happen in the background but there were no plans of this, also we needed to centralise our character in the frame because sometimes we got alot of the window in our shots. Also i didnt like the fact in the begining when we paned May to the seat and alot of the wall was in our shot. Another thing that I noticed that many people didnt is that our bags are on the seat in the background making it look mess. We could of also filmed more to make it longer, however we felt if we had added more it could make it look worse rather then better so we decieded not to take the risk.        

Over all i felt that our preliminary was successful, this is because we didnt break the 180 degree rule and we successfuly created two match on action shots which personally I am very proud of, also in the fact that our non diagetic sound complimented our video because it gave the audience the right impression of our characters without using words. I also felt it was successfull becauce even though we had some unsuccessful parts; we will learn from these mistakes and will work on what we will have to do next time to make our production better.