Preliminary Task Review

Preliminary Task Review

 

This is the Preliminary Task that we created for our AS Media coursework 



 

 

To create this we used a Cannon 700D camera mounted on a tripod to ensure that the shots where steady. The main aim of  the task was to ensure that we understood continuity editing and so when we filmed this we had to ensure that the cuts flow and made sense when edited together. I believe that overall our video maintains continuity very well with all the cuts flowing and the speech and eye contact of the actors lines up with one another, however I have noticed one mistake looking back over our video. in the clip when character A enters the room you here the door closing behind him which is fine but when we cut to the next scene when character A approaches character B the sound is repeated which would confuse an audience. there is also room for improvement on the close ups of character A during his conversation with character B as we left too much open space to his right in the shot and could improve by zooming in closer on the character.

Apart from these few mistakes I believe that our preliminary task was very successful.

 

While producing this piece we used and developed many skills that can be reapplied when creating our opening title sequences the main thing that I developed my kills in is filming. Even though I was acting in the preliminary task I learnt a huge amount of how to use the more high quality equipment used in media  an example of this the close up on opening the door.

 

 Another skill used was to ensure that our piece included the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. I believe that we managed to complete this task and include all these edits yet there is a moment where we specifically break the 180 degree rule in order to see what effect that had.

 

 Overall im extremely pleased with the outcome of our preliminary task, I think that we covered the necessary types of continuity editing required and that we successfully understood the task and as a result where able to create a video that fulfilled our targets.