Q6: Evaluate your contibution to the group's work

Hello,

Below is a link to my answer to question 6, it should take you to the website called prezi.

http://prezi.com/qqpy8w2ym7d3/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Q5: Feeback from others

Feedback from Jess, Alex and Connor's group:



Positives
-Continuity
-Shot types i.e. the sweat one and track close up
-Audio - heartbeat, clock ticking and tension effects

Negatives
-Expand on the plot
-Shot reverse shots were a bit slow
-Dialogue audio levels

Q4: How well did you meet the brief?

 Here is my answer to the fourth question in my evaluation for media.

Q3: Areas for development

Daniel Winn

Q3: Area for development

In my opinion our group did a great job for the preliminary task, however, there is always room for improvement.  Personally I think our group could have managed our time better because it felt as though we had to squeeze in our editing and rush it slightly.  If we had taken less time to film we would have had more time to edit. 

 Next time round we will improve this by taking less time filming by doing some at lunch or even after school so we allow as much time on the editing as possible.

Q2: Areas of Success

 This is a PowerPoint on the areas of success. It contains things that in my opinion went well for the group during this time of production.


Link to the film: https://youtu.be/-YHfXWbuS_I

Q1: What have you learned during the making of your preliminary task?

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Now that our preliminary task is completed with great success I can now talk about the evaluation.





The first question of the evaluation is: What have you learned during the making of your preliminary task?



Technical aspects - The new equipment introduced to our group was all completely new, so we had little knowledge but had a high ability to learn. We was taught how to use the camera, shoulder mount and tripod for the recording of the film then we was introduced into the editing software after the filming.




How to manage time - To manage time you have to be aware of when the deadline is and predict how many days it will take to film and edit the entire production. It is vital that you plan what you're going to do on certain days so your group is organised and ready for each day your group is working on.



Group work - The group worked good together, we all had our best ideas put into the film as best as possible so everyone had a good contribution. There was very little problems and arguing during the time of the preliminary task so that was a big positive to our success.




Storyboarding - With this personally I felt like we could've added more information to each drawing but there was enough writing for someone to read it and understand the work clearly. I learned that before drawing and writing the storyboard your group need to finalise what you're going to be filming and how you're going to do it with all the angles and what's actually going to be said etc.




Issues around continuity - This was one of our biggest concerns, we wanted to make sure that our film had zero continuity errors, however we only managed to restrict the number to 1, but you had to be picky to find it. This issue we didn't notice until the deadline had passed so there was nothing we could do, but we did a great job in making sure there was no more continuity errors and things such as match on action and the 180 degree rule was done correctly and swiftly.

Storyboard for Preliminary task

Here below is a link to the story board to my group's preliminary task, the power point contains various drawings and a small description of what is happening in that specific scene.

 

Preliminary task

Hello,




For our upcoming preliminary task we will be demonstrating different types of camera shots and angles through a process which contains planning, filming and editing.



Match on action - This mean that the perspective of the camera changes during a scene and the scene
then continues to flow.



Reverse shot - This is a type of camera angle in which the shot views the action from the side of the
previous shot. This will usually be used during conversations between two people, this gives the effect of one actor looking at the other.




180 degree rule - This means that in a scene the camera should stay within 180 degrees on one side
of the 'invisible line'. If this rule is broken then it could result in confusion for the viewers.


My group consists of three people, those three people are Daniel Haywood who will be in front of the camera but will also contribute to the things behind the camera. Dane Buckley will be more behind the camera and myself will be contributing more in front of the camera, but everyone will contribute to something during the preliminary task.

Camera Shots and Practice

About a week ago, myself and my group went out into different sections of the school of our choice.
Below is the photographs of our group's camera shots, there is a variety of angles and effects which
may explain the angles better. Feel free to have a look at the PowerPoint!