Filming Task Evaluation

What went well:

• Good communication within the group
• Everyone participated in either filming or acting
• Completed most filming on time

What could be improved:

• Needed more actors involved.
• More shots around the college (canteen, hall, outside of the college)
• Used more shot techniques (Over the shoulder match cuts)

Most part of the filming went very well. Everyone participated and communicated well which made the filming process run smoothly. Our setting was inside a classroom mostly so we didn't have much space. I think we used the car prop quite effectively as an extreme close up shot seemed to show a life size car.We did not manage to get all the shots in the time frame given but we got the most important shots in which were the dialogue parts. In the editing room we discovered that our sound on the camera was not enabled therefore out entire film has no sound. This was crucial and we will definitely make sure the sound is enabled next time before filming. Because we have no sound, we will need to spend more time in the editing room adding subtitles to the film. We also need to focus on the lighting on some parts too. For example, we filmed a shot of the locker from two perspectives. one was directly in front of it and one was from an angle. We discovered in the editing room that the shots we took had a very different lighting. One was normal and the other was a more yellow lighting. This was not a big issue as we could change the lighting in the editing process but it would've been more efficient to check the footage before carrying on and wasting valuable time in the editing room.

Our main shot technique for the conversations in the car was the over the shoulder shot however, we only managed to only film one side of the shoulder throughout the whole process therefore we can only see the conversation from one perspective rather than two. This was because we didn't have much space on the other side to place the camera and by the time we had finished the first run of the filming we didn't have enough time to do it again on the other side.