Preliminary Task Analysis

Preliminary Task Analysis

For our preliminary task we filmed a class doing an essay. We used different camera angles to make the film look different and entertaining. For example we used close shots on Conor and Matt to show a different perspective. We also used match on action when we recorded Conor and Matt writing with the pen, although it isn't the greatest match on action it still shows that we can use different skills with the camera.

We have a lot of strengths and weaknesses in our film, one of our weaknesses is the camera shaking. it was difficult to keep the camera still, which does ruin the shot because all you can see the camera shaking and that takes your concentrating away from whats happening in the shot. Also we did make the shots a bit long  for example we made the match on action shot too long which drags the shot on and makes it more boring for the audience. Final weakness is we need more dynamism in the shot so it looks more better.

Our strengths were, we had a range of shots, for example we had close up, mediums and long range shots. This is to show that we understand all the different types of shots and how to use them. Another strengths was we knew a range of different shots for example close ups, medium shots and reverse shots. We showed all of the above and we used them to make the shots more interesting. Our final strength was in the editing, we used a lot of good cuts to show different angles of the scene. For example we cut from a close up on Matt to a shot of Luke sitting at a desk. This shows that we used to shots to show whats going on at the same time.

Targets- what we need to improve on is the camera shaking, to resolve this we are going to bring a tripod which should keep it still for when we are filming. Lighting we need to make sure that the lighting is the same the whole time, so to solve this we need to make sure that the lights in the room are on the whole time because at first we had the lights off, then we turned them on at the end and  it didn't look right.