Evaluating Our Prelim Task

For our prelim film, we had to film someone walking through a door, sitting down with somebody else, exchanging a few lines of dialogue, and then walking back out of the door. In our film, we also included a small journey, and few more characters. The journey involved:

-dialogue between two characters asking for a pen

-the main character going on his journey through the school to find a pen

-another two characters exchanging dialogue and a pen is not found

-the main character leaving, and then the audience discovering that a pile of pens was concealed by the person who was asked for a pen

This is our film:

I feel that me, James and Joe worked well as a group. We came up with our initial idea relatively quickly, and then discussed more in depth as a group to develop the idea into a suitable length of film.
When developing our ideas, we also began to think of specific camera shots that we could use as well, which made the actual filming quicker, and easier. I think we were effective as a group, as we all contributed to the initial idea, and then discussed each shot and all the action as a group, to make sure that we got the optimum amount of skill and technical aspects out of each shot. Also, during filming, we all used the camera, focused the camera and acted as director of the shot, to give each group member and opportunity in each role. I think that my skills were more effective in the use and focusing of the camera, rather than director of the scenes, as I find it difficult to develop and initial idea once the practical work has started to take place.

If i had to do the prelim task again, I would think more carefully about the length of the journey before the action takes place, as the brief for the task was mostly based in the last 20-30 seconds of the film. If we had not included the last few seconds, then the film would not follow the brief. Also if we had not been brutal during the editing process, the journey would have been too long, and each individual shot would also last for too long, therefore not keeping the audiences attention effectively.