Prelim Evaluation

Evaluation

There are a few things that I feel we could have done a lot better and things that we can improve upon in our thriller opening.

We had a small problem with the lighting at the end of the scene as we can’t see one of the characters faces in detail as the daylight is coming through the window behind him. However this problem could not have been avoided as the room we used was the only room available for us to film in. the room we used didn’t have any blinds or curtains so there was no way for us to stop the light coming into the room, however, we could have moved the table so we were not facing the light.

There was however problems that we caused ourselves that could have easily been avoided. One of these problems was the editing. We had a couple of shots in the final version of our prelim that jump onto the next shot without flowing properly. The first of these is when the character is walking into the room it skips to the next shot and he appears a few metres further on than the preceding shot. The second was when the character was leaving the table. In this instance we had the same problem in that the two shots do not match. We could have avoided this problem by taking our time and thought more carefully about the shots that we required.

We also encountered a problem with the number of shots that we had. We did not have enough shots that could be used in the final prelim as the person operating the camera did not hold it still. This meant that a lot of the shots we had were wobbling and were unsuitable for use. This could easily have been avoided as we did not need to move the camera during a shot. We also break the 180 degree rule once in the prelim, again this is due to the lack of usable shots that we had.

Overall I think our preliminary film was okay but could have been much improved if we hadn’t have made silly but significant mistakes. These mistakes will be addressed when filming my thriller.