Evaluation Question 7

7. From our preliminary task, which featured me losing my phone under a set of stairs and molly helping me finding it, was used as a mock production before our opening thriller sequence, a chance for us not only to work on our acting skills, but also get familiar with using the camera and tripod and explore it's uses, and also practise possible camera shots in situations that we could implement into our main production. From our preliminary task to our main production, I myself learnt a number of things. Based on watching the preliminary task back and looking at our main production, the first thing I noticed was the use of camera angles were far better in the main production compared to the preliminary task, for example, throughout the preliminary task, it only really appeared that we used mid-level and medium shots, showing a lack of diversity, however this changed in our main production drastically, using a wide range of camera shots, such as high angle, panning and P.O.V. This showed that not only myself, but my group members had gained a better understanding of camera use and the effects it can have during this time and I was able to make suggestionsn when creating our group storyboard and designing our frames. It seemed only one camera angle, a medium shot was used during the preliminary task, which greatly changed in comparison to our main production. Our main production obviously turnt out much better than our preliminary task, and I had learnt different things in general about things such as sound technique and mis-en-scene in general and how it can be used to draw in an audience and set the tone for the audience in a scene, by then my skills and knowledge had improved, as did my group members, which played a part in our production being successful. A difficulty we had of the preliminary task was that we did not know much about filming and appropriate camera shots to suit situations, but we overcame this with experimenting, and looking back at our filming on the camera at the time to decide whether or not we were satisfied with the shots, which lead to us finally settling on which shots we were happy with, and our knowledge of camera use and editing greatly improved through making our production, as we spent more and more time with the cameras to gain more experience and knowledge to help us complete our productions. If I had to do anything differently from my preliminary task, I would improve my acting, because if it was better and I could've impressed then, maybe I could've been the main character, Cameron in my production, and in my next media coursework filming assignment, I hope to take a main role and further showcast the potential of my acting skills.

Me and Molly acting in a shot

A close-up of me acting in the scene

Experimenting different shots (Long shots)