William's Superspecialawsome Evaluation

Throughout this preliminary task i have discovered quite a few things i didnt know before hand which will almost certainly guid me straight to coming up with something rather special and accurate to the specification for the main task.

Before i started the task i already had a pretty firm idea of some of the terms and what was required to make a good peice, for instance i didnt see Match On Action as being a term but nmore plain and simple common snese, which of course it is. But i didnt know about the 180 degree rule as i had never really noticed it in real life film work before, but when this was pointed out to me i suddenly realised just how often it is used.

I didnt find too much of the technical side very difficult. The camera started off as a bit of a tricky spot, filled with regular moments when i would end up charging off location to the technical department in the media block to get it sorted out for the first two lessons. But i easily got used to it and when i got the hang of it it wasnt too bad. The real difficulty on the technical side was the editing as i had never done any sort of video editing before let alone with imovie. With Georga's help however we managed to get through the editing. I think it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be but it was most certainly intimidating as my mind couldnt help but continue to think 'what if i push the wrong button and delete all our footage?'

We started off the task by sorting out the basics, storyboard and script were drawn up in just one lesson together. One of the few lessons we were all actually present. We then used the next few lessons to start filming, settling into one of the abandoned rooms in the old building of the college. Unfortunately however we had to work around other people, as the room was only ever free on a thursday, forcing us to use the other days to try and film any parts that werent inside the room itself. Fortunately however, there was usually at least 2 people from the group present so we could at least film as much as we could when we could.

As a group i think we worked well together when we could all actualy show up in college. Individually i think that i was probably best at directing where the shots were placed. We all seemed to listen to each other and was always interested in what each other had to say which i feel was importent as well as being able to have a laugh while we worked otherwise it would have just seemed like another boring task added onto the many we already had in other lessons. The filmwork especially was a testemony to this, the corpsing made for a really fun eworking environments and made sure that we were all kept interested in what we were doing if anything to see which of us would mess up our lines next.

The only dissapointment for me was that some of theshots didnt seem to come out as planned, the second to last one in particular was incredibly wobbly and juddery where it really shouldnt have been. I think that was the only place where we need advise, i know full well that i came in to filming days with a different top on at one point but i would like you to ask yourself if you would have realy noticed had i not pointed this out to you. I should also like to point out, that considering that was the first idea of filming that any of us had ever done before, i think that its a very good first attempt ever.