Evaluation - Question 7

7. What we learnt since our preliminary task

Since the preliminary task, we have learnt, as a group, that we needed to be a bit more patient with eachother as, at times, we were getting a bit annoyed with eachother if things weren't going right. When it came to the camera work, we learnt that if we wanted to get a high grade on our final piece we then needed to start using different camera angles and shots so that it would make us look like we had looked into our film genre and had thought about what kind of camera angles and shots that we would have then needed to use during our film. For this, we decided to use the handheld camera shots to show a sense of realism for the audience so that they could feel like that they were in the shoes of the person who is currently being viewed on the cinema screen. We also learnt that we needed to use a range of camera shots to make our film look like we had used a wide range of camera shots and not just a few throughout the whole thing.

With Mise-en-Scene, we learnt that we needed to use a lot more costume within our film and make sure that the settings were relevant to what our film was about and make sure it all linked together. For example, for our pre-lim task we used the bare minimum for costume, whereas in our final project, we used more costume and made it look like we had put in a lot of effort for this particular piece as before it did not look as great with the costume as it did the second time around. Also, with character, we learnt that we had to make our characters more confident and ready and able to pull off an extremely good performance in order for us to get a good grade on our final piece. We also learned that if we were going to film something then we needed to make sure that the setting was completely accurate with what we were focusing on. This would have also meant making sure that there weren't many people around whilst we were trying to film so there wouldn't be any distractions which would have caused us to then have to re-film, giving us more editing to do after all the filming was finished. 

Throughout the stage, we also learnt that we needed to have a narrative which made complete sense with the right content within the film. Even though out preliminary task made sense? We had to mak sure that our final piece also made sense so that we could then go for higher grades and have our work look good at the very end. We also knew that we would need to choose an appropriate content so it wouldn't look bad if we just had random bursts of language that did not need to be there in the first place.