Prelim Evaluation

In our prelim task, we had to create a film that lasted no longer and no less than 60 seconds. The film could be any genre that we wanted and had to follow set rules such as the 180 rule. The film had involve filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, which whom she/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

The plot of our film was of a man, whose name isn’t told in the story, who has made a deal with the mafia and has tried to get away but get kidnapped by them. He wakes up in a storage room and is confronted by the boss of the mafia gang.

The first thing our group did was plan the film on a story board, which ended up being 3 pages long. This included a short sentence or two describing what happened in the shot and a small diagram depicting what we aimed to be able to shoot. In our story board, we noted down which camera angles would be used in each shot. For example, to show conversation between the two characters in our story we used a shot reverse shot.

We found finding a setting for our movie rather easy as all we needed was an empty room to film. Background noise was a problem however as we recorded part of our film in a music practice room and other parts in open areas where there was a lot of noise. We managed to edit out the sound when it came to editing the whole movie. One thing we could have added while we were editing was possibly a backing track before the characters meet each other.

Overall, i think our final product was successful especially for our first time recording and editing.