Preliminary evaluation

I have finished my preliminary to a quality I could achieve . The editing was quite difficult as I am new to it and some of the shots I took were not very easy to edit because of rubbish acting. Some of the editing itself is choppy again because of acting faults making it hard to edit. If I spend more time in the final video, I will spend more time trying to get professional quality takes to improve my final cut. I could also use many different types of shot as the majority of mine are medium closeups. I could also use different kind of camera movement. This would help my video look more professional. In one of the scenes where the person walks up to the chair, he comes from a different angle, this is seen as a continuity error which will make the final cut look unprofessional.

The things that had to go into my preliminary were:

• A 180 reverse shot
• someone opening a door
• someone crossing a room and two people exchanging a few lines.
• sitting down

Getting these shots were simple as I used a Sony cam-corder, I used a tripod to mount my camera, this gave me a steady shot and it made it look less amateur. I will have to make sure to use more camera movement types which will make my movie more of a professional standard. My movie is about a night out and the person who walks through the door is confused about where he ended up last and ask his friend who went with him and gets a unconventional response.

I had to restart my preliminary a few times due to not getting it done on the day, and then the week after coming back to school in different clothes, but after i had got the script down, I tried my best to get it done as fast as possible. This means during my end project I must make sure I can get my time management correct.