Evaluation

Media Preliminary Task Evaluation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-SRml-sk3s&feature=youtu.be

Our preliminary task was to create a short clip by filming and editing a sequence of a person entering a room and speaking to someone else.

For our clip we started off by introducing a dark corridor with a silhouette of a person walking down in a head on shot, this is creating mystery to find out who that person is. The lighting changes as we move into a room in another location. Whilst this mysterious character is walking down, we show clips jumping from another room back to the corridor. In the other room you see another character, this time in full light, trying to get into some cabinets, perhaps trying to find something. By jumping to and from the different settings it starts to build the tension and make the audience wonder what is going to happen.

You see a hand reach for a door handle, we focus only on the hand to show a range of camera techniques and to keep the tension building. As the door opens you see the look on both characters faces, one startled, one confused and annoyed. We are shown this by the different camera angles. We used an over the shoulder shot for character 1 and a head on shot for character 2.

As the two characters quarrel about why one character has betrayed the other the shots flick back and forth from each character to show the conversation is just between the two of them, we then see a change in mood as character 2 offers character 1 a biscuit. The atmosphere changes as we jump to a scene where both characters are shown sat down with a cup of tea.

The editing worked well as the clips roll smoothly from one scene to another, however to improve our video next time we could work on how our conversation could have more versatility. The conversation would have more range if we included different tones of voice and we had more expression and belief in our overall performance.