Preliminary Task

Preliminary Evaluation by Darwin Serrano  



For our Preliminary task, we were asked to create a film which showed the 3 continuity principles a Match-on-action shot, Shot-reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. We prepared for this task by making a story board which put our ideas into paper and gave everyone in our group a vision on what we were planning our film to look like.

In this task, i was the main actor. I was the person being filmed by Ryan who was being our Cameraman. I also gave ideas on what and how we should film as i was the one who created the
Storyboard.

From doing our Preliminary task, we have found out our strengths and weaknesses as a group. We feel that our weaknesses can be seen in our final video therefore we hope that we can improve on this so that our work can be of the highest quality.

I feel that our strength is that we are able to adapt in certain situations very well. This is because, when we were first planning our preliminary task, we planned on shooting in the Library, We even based our storyboard on its setting. Unfortunately, we were unable to shoot at the library as it was occupied at the time therefore we had to find another place where we could shoot. In the end, we ended up shooting in our media room because it was the only place that was free to film in. Although it wasn't the setting we wanted, we still finished our task in what we feel is a high enough standard for a good grade.

This inconvenience, however, caused us a lot of time which we feel is what caused us to make some mistakes. For example, because of the lack of time, we were a little rushed in our filming which is never good as it meant that we couldn't shoot as many shots as we would have liked. This left us with limited shots to work with when we were editing. This is why in some cases, there are some strange cuts in our film. We had to do this so that we can keep continuity.

As a group, i feel that we worked really well because although we had our own roles, we all contributed in giving and listening to ideas to make our task better.