Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

The Task

In this task, we were given a brief which was for 2 characters to walk into a room and engage in dialogue together, it could be like an interview but we chose to add a bit of drama into it so it could make it more interesting. Our clip was supposed to around 30 seconds long but our one extended to 51 seconds, which was fine with the teachers. Our video was based on 2 main characters, me and Fasih, the character that walks into the scene asks to meet him and he tells him that he has been robbed by another character (not in video), Doobz. Their was not a lot of dialogue, but their was just enough so that the audience knew what had happened. The scene finished with me and Fasih walking out the scene and for Fasih to sort out what has happened. 

WWW

I think our video was quite good, this because their was good match-on-action shots. This helped build tension and it makes the audience become more anxious as they want to find out why Fasih has received a text saying 'Come to the block'. These shots helped build up the conversation and to see what has happened with Shervin. I think we were successful at building tension as the audience seemed keen to see what would happened next, which is what me, Fasih and Zubair were aiming to do. The 180 degree rule was shot successfully, as when Fasih and me were in conversation, we changed the angle of the camera well and the shot came out well and it ran smoothly. The shot switched to Fasih in the conversation (from my shoulder) so it could show his facial expression and how he would react in this particular circumstance. We also added in the fade-to-black when Fasih walks into the part where he is meeting me, so it can show a certain time past, the next shot is of me walking up to where he is, which gave more of an effect that it took a a certain time for me to come in. 

EBI

After my video was screened, we received quite good feedback and their was not a lot that was wrong apart from some minor things. One of these things were the match-on-action of me walking through the door, which seemed just a split second early, this was because we played around with it when the shot was quite late and we were not able to perfect the shot, which is something which we can do easily next time as I will have more time to edit it. Another shot which I could have shot better was the over-the-shoulder shot, from my point of view, showing Fasih. This shot showed to much free space and Fasih was not situated in the centre of the shot, which is what we should have done. This was due to a common fault that we done and we couldn't really change it as we had no more clips which were more focused on Fasih.