Georgia's Evaluation

Throughout the making of the preliminary task I have found out many new things which will help me in media when filming.

Before I took media I didn’t understand how important filming was, such as match on action, the 180 degree rule.

When filming you have to make sure that you keep the camera steady, (which is much more harder than it looks). Also you need to make sure that you use the relevant shot sizes, angle’s etc.

For editing my group used imovie as we haven’t used editing software before. After 5 minutes of using the software it became quite easy to use, and we got the editing done quickly. We just put all of the necessary shots in order and cut the parts which we didn’t want in it, or the parts which we didn’t think worked well.

One part of the editing didn’t flow as well as it could have, so we cut a second from the end of one shot and the start of the shot next to it, which lead to the film looking how we wanted it to.

For the task, we started off making the storyboard together, so we could hear each others inputs. Then as a group we decided where the best location for filming would be. I mainly did the filming for the task. To do this it took over a few days, we used the classroom time to do the filming, we used the time effectively. Then when we finished the acting and filming I helped with editing all the shots together, we used some of our own time to do this.

AS a group we all made sure we listened to each other to make sure that we all understood what we wanted to achieve and how we wanted the shots to be. We changed some of the storyboard as we were filming as we listened to each others ideas if we thought something would work better from the original ideas we had. As well as this we changed some of the script. Also as a group we looked at where we should place the camera so we would have enough space around it and that it wouldn’t be in the way.

Unfortunately when filming, some of the shots didn’t come out how we wanted them to, some of it was uneven, wobbly etc. So next time when we film I think we should take more of the same shot to see if they improve each time we take them, then also we will have more choice from which shot would look better. And also try our best to keep the camera steady and maybe find different techniques that could help us when filming. As well as this I think sometimes we forgot to set the white balance, so for the main task, setting the white balance should be done each time we take a new shot.