Evaluation

Unfortunately I didn’t do GCSE media and was therefore at a disadvantage when it came to knowing about; shot sizes, the location recce and script writing however doing the preliminary has allowed me to learn and develop these skills.

Whilst we were doing the pre-production we as a team had to learn to communicate and find out everyone’s strengths and weakness’s which was difficult as we all had different ideas and ways of working but turned out all right as we all had different  strengths and so we could help each other out if we needed to . We did find working together a bit of a challenge as we all had different views and each person took what we were doing with different attitudes but we always discussed everyone’s ideas and let them have a say, which was great when it came to getting creative trying to find out a unique and original idea.

 During the task I learnt that there are many risks whilst filming and watching for continuity, by doing a risk assessment at the place of filming I managed to evaluate everything that could go wrong  so when it actually came to filming there was no risk of someone or equipment getting damaged.  

 I think that overall we have met the aims of the assessment with the continuity and group work. Before starting to shoot we practiced shooting something with good continuity to understand how it worked and that we knew what we were expected to do. During the rehearsals it was difficult for everyone to keep focused at times and with filming it became obvious that you have to be very organized.  We got there in the end and for the next task I will work hard to get other people in my group to keep focused.

Editing looked quite complicated but having had a go I felt I picked it up quite quickly.  I will look forward to the next task to sharpen my skills.

Team work is all important, from having the right clothes on for a shot and then wearing the same the next day to making sure we could all meet up to edit and make use of our editing time. Planning was very important as we needed a clear idea of what we were doing at all times.  The planning we did enabled us to film quite quickly.

Looking back over the finished product of our preliminary task I realised that we had not stuck to our script completely as we had problems remembering it in such a short space of time so this could perhaps be a target for me to work on, another target could be to vary camera shots as there were groups of certain shots together which meant we didn’t show a range of shots or the skill needed to shoot them. For our next shoot we also need to work on the pre-production work and make sure it is ready before shooting. I also want to improve my skills at the software programme Adobe Premiere, I feel it has a lot to offer and would like to experiment with colour, editing styles and sound.