Preliminary Sequence

Preliminary Sequence Evaluation

What went well?

I thought our  shots and cuts were very accurately done and we had a variety of shots to make the scene more interesting and to bring the audience in. The close up/tracking shot of the trainers i thought was a unique shot as the audience gets to see a completely different shot to what they would have expected. The phone conversation went well I'm my opinion as we cut between scenes to see each of the characters reaction to whats being said. The lighting is also done well as its clear, we used natural lighting so we didn't have any problems with things not being seen in the shots.

Criticisms?

One criticisms that we received form our classmates is our continuity is not on point, as we filmed over two separate days the characters had different clothes and hair styles and the weather is completely different e.g the first day of filming it was sunny and the second day was very rainy and dark. Another criticism is that the walking scene of Katie was too long and so we should have cut it down more. 

Do you agree with the Criticisms?

i completely agree with the criticisms that we received back, as while we were filming we noticed that we didn't have the right clothes but we didn't have time to re - film and the same with the walking scene  when we sat down to edit we noticed that the scene was dragging on a bit to long but we didn't have time to re-film it. When we do our opening sequence we need to think about our clothing and the weather and make sure we film early so if need be we can re - film.

Organisation - planning, time keeping?

I thought our organisation was adequate, as we were organised but we could've been much more, however the time we had to plan and film the pre lim is a big factor in our organisation as we didn't have long to plan the script and storyboard, we had approximately 1-2 hours. Because knew we wouldn't have time to finish we went ahead and filmed without a complete plan and improvised along the way, at this point we then had to become more organised as we had to think of our next scene and get it done immediately.

How to Improve?

I think we have to improve by looking at the continuity and making sure it matches up e.g the clothes the actors are wearing. We could also look at the tracking shot of Katie walking and cut it down to make it shorter.