Preliminary Task: Self Assessment (Owen Bates)

Preliminary Task

· Does your film use continuity editing so that the sequence of events are clear and easily understood by the viewer?
I believe that our film does use continuity editing so that the sequences of events are
clear and understandable to the viewer. We tried to combine the clips in a way that we 
used many different camera angles, and many different views of the scene to give a 
impression of the surroundings and make the clip interesting rather than just sticking with 
one camera angle/perspective. However, the editing wasn't as good as it could of been 
due to the sheer amount of time we spent filming individual clips, leaving us with little 
time to edit to the film to what we imagined or hoped it to be. Some people understood 
the story and what it was about, but both us and the audience believed there was too 
much running or 'chasing' scenes and little dialogue which is often quite important so this 
is something we can certainly alter for the main task. If we had more time to edit, this 
certainly would of helped the audience to understand the story better. It seemed that the 
film flowed well but we changed cameras half way through filming to a HD Camera, so 
wide screen video wasn't persistent, this obviously affected the quality of the film, but its 
something that can be worked on for the main task by using one camera.

· Have you followed the directions in the brief? (A character opens a door,
crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character. An 
exchange of dialogue occurs.)

We didn't really follow the directions in the brief as much as we could of done but we did include some of the instructions given to us. We didn't exchange much dialogue in the film so this can certainly be improved on in the main task. This was because of most of the film was chase scenes, and sound wasn't clear on the bits we did have dialogue, because of the cameras used.

· Have you used match-on-action?

We included a match on action shot on the school gate when Dan & Liam were rushing to open the gate by typing in the code and the shot remained on the gate. 

· Can you explain what a match-on action involves?

A match on action shot 

· Have you used shot/reverse shot?

Yes we included the shot/reverse shot when

· Can you explain what shot/reverse shot involves?

· Did you observe the 180-degree rule?

· Can you explain the 180-degree rule?

· What role did you play in the making of the preliminary task? (e.g. filming, acting, editing, equipment organisation etc.)

My roles in the Preliminary Task were:

Director

Cinematographer

Editor

Sound Editor

Location Scout

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· How would you assess your contribution to the group?

· What have you learned from the process of making your preliminary film?