Prelim Evaluation

The amount of time it took us to shoot the whole of our preliminary work was roughly an hour and a half. I think for the amount of time we were given for this task and for the amount of knowledge we had in this subject, the end result was encouraging. The dialogue throughout the task was irrelevant so we took this as an opportunity of humour. The shots we used include:

• Long shot
• Medium shot
• Close ups
• Extreme close ups

We wanted to use quite alot of shots to vary our skills and show that we have considered most of the shots into this task. The camera angles include:

• Eye level
• Low angle

There was not a particular reason for why we chose these angles. Camera movement included:

• Pans
• Zooming in
• Hand held

We chose hand held shots because we thought it would be the most challenging to keep the camera still and that specific type of movement fulfilled are expectations.



This shows the classic shot of me opening the door and the shot after that is to show myself and Luke walking into the room. It shows crosscutting well and focuses on where the subjects are going.

This shows a great example of how we used our extreme close up shot. We picked up on the tie being corrected and this shot not only gives an insight to what the character is like but also how well the camera man executed the shot.

I would say this is more of a close up then an extreme close up because it shows quite abit of the table that the mugs are on. This shows the objects that will be involved in the scene and we really liked this shot.

Overall I think we managed to complete our prelim task effectively, considering the time span we were given. The camera wasn't hard to use and neither was the tripod. We wanted to follow the rules we had been taught; 180 degree rule etc. Sound was uploaded and put into the sequence, we thought this piece of music by "Scouting for Girls" was appropriate due to the lyrics involving James Bond and our prelim including smartly dressed men and no actual subject. What i think we have learned most about this task is that EVERYTHING needs to be taken into account before filming. We never thought of lighting when we were shooting and we had to change location before we shot what we had initially wanted to film. The thing i would improve on for our prelim would be to involve more camera shots and angles. It would have been a sensible thing to do if we tried to cram the prelim task with as much as we knew but we didn't want to make it look distasteful.