Preliminary Task -- Analysis and Evaluation

 What have you learnt by doing this exercise?

           
During this exercise, I felt that I learnt the difficult nature of film overall. The organisation of props and actors as well as assisting crew is difficult and required me to be as quick and organised as possible. When filming, it is much more difficult than planned because between scenes, everyone makes noise and loses concentration so it was my job to control the noise and get everyone to regain focus.

What skills have you developed?

I believe that I have developed my filming skills more than anything else. I have previously not had much filming experience but when I had filmed, it has been relatively average and simply not good enough. My preliminary task is certainly not anywhere near the level I can produce but I am confident that it is an improvement over previous tasks. I also enhanced and expanded my little knowledge of the different camera angles in media.

I feel that I have improved my organisation skills because the two actors in my preliminary task have extremely busy schedules in their lives so this meant I had to re-adjust the filming date three times as their availability was limited. This required me to be as organised as possible to get everybody in for filming at a specific time on a specific date. This was also achieved by organising the rounding up all of the equipment I needed including: Tripod, Camera and Props. 

What feedback have you received?

The feedback on YouTube has been mostly positive. I have received 8 likes, and 3 dislikes in addition to 14 comments which have been mixed with good and bad reviews. I am really happy with the feedback I got because of the 3 dislikes as this shows there are people who do dislike it  giving me the impression there are aspects to improve on. I am pleased about how 8 people liked it and the comments are mostly positive. 

 

      These are two screenshots of my video on YouTube as well as all of the      comments that were posted on the video.  

       How would you improve your Preliminary Task?

To improve my Preliminary Task I would have used a better camera, used a microphone to enhance the audio and dialogue. Furthermore, I would have used a different location but due to the circummstances of the timings my actors were available for, the house I used worked out as a suitable location. Also, the rain effect I used from Final Cut Pro X was not as realistic as I had hoped for.