Preliminary exercise October 2010

This is the preliminary exercise I completed with Ryan Bartlett, Paige Weir, Millie Hicks

Overall I believe that we achieved a very huge level of quality on our preliminary exercise.
This is due to firstly, the camerawork, the shots that we used were steady throughout and each of these shots was correctly framed. The eye line match and the 180 degree rule were followed very successfully when filming. However there are some aspects that we would change in our exercise. This would be just to simply to add more shots, this is because when we started editing we discovered a jump cut that had occurred, this resulted in us having to find a shot of Millie Hicks without speech and add it in.

Secondly the editing helped us gain a higher level. This is due to our very successful match on action, invisible transitions and our shot reverse shot. The pace of the sequence is very good and fits in well with the tone of the scene. However to improve this we would have to again create different shots to edit in to make the sequence more interesting.

Finally the mise en scene worked very well in our favour. the lighting work very well in our scene as there seem to be a slight gray light over Ryan creating a moody and upset emotion, this light has not been transferred to Millie and this has made the scene gain the right emotions that is required. The background is very appropriate as it is filmed in a real office and as the scene is about a person getting fired, it felt like the right place to film it.

The team worked extremely well together and as we all pitched in on everything the process was very quick and we were able to complete this video to a high standard. My main role in the team was to actually be on the camera and press record.