Prelim Evaluation

The Brief of the Preliminary Task was to film and edit a thirty second video of a face to face conversation between two characters, involving a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down and exchanging dialogue with the other character, using match on action, shot reverse and the 180degree rule.

As a team, the four of us worked well together, sharing idea's and alternating the work. Luckily, our group all get along, so there was no arguments, and we all worked together to make the video work, focusing what we did on our strengths. I did the more artistic side of things, such as the storyboard, make up, and props, such as the masks and logo's. Andrew, Jamie, and James chose to write the script based on my original concept of Robin questioning Batman about a new costume, being refused, and running out crying, as they all have good skills in drama to make the script work to our advantage. When it came to filming, we all had a role in the video, and had a part in filming and editing, although when any of us had difficulty in this, we helped eachother out.

Personally. I think we met most of the brief, as we used shot reverse, the 180 degree rule, and match on action, as can be seen below:

As well as using the reverse shot in these scenes, we also used the 180 degree rule without filming out of this angle for most of the scene.
We aso used match on match action for the beginning scene, as seen below:

From the Prelim Task, I have learnt the importance of working well as a team to make a good video, and the importance of a good script and storyboard to structure the work, all of which I will take into account with the coursework task.