Preliminary exercise evaluation

Preliminary exercise evaluation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szeMXe3Dq8g

The film we filmed was about a boy who was talking to a girl. It is a short film however used all the editing skills, for example: Match on action, eye line match, shot, reverse shot and 180 degree.

Firstly we began with a graphic match, this included zooming into character A's eye and then zooming out from the zero which was above the door in the room we were filming in. We did this to create effect as the room linked in to our film. I believe we used this technique accurately as character A's eyes perfectly matched the zero.

We then used match of action that included character A walking up to the room and then walking into the room. For both actions we filmed in different directions enabling the effect of him walking into the room to occur. We used this technique accurately as we made sure the camera was following the 180 degree rule by keeping the camera on the same side in each clip to prevent the scene coming out wrong.

After this we used an eye line match where we shot a close up of character A looking towards character B however we didn't see character B and then a point of view shot from character A looking at character B. We used this technique correctly as the scene came out correctly in our short film.

Our film concluded with a shot, reverse shot. This is where the camera was turned towards character A or character B depending on who was talking. This carried out throughout the conversation, which wasn't too long. We used this technique accurately as we used it in the right situation and turned the camera to the person who was talking, which is how shot, reverse shot should be used. 

Lastly throughout the whole film we made sure we used the 180-degree rule where we kept the camera on the same side during the whole film to make sure that the scene doesn't look different and came out right. We used this technique correctly as our film did not switch sides during the short film.

I think we did quite well as we used all of the techniques as well as a graphic match. However if I had the chance to make this film again I would make the film a little longer and give it more action as I believe our film was not as interesting as it could have been as was very short. I also think we should have planned our film out more in the beginning as we there was a change of plans when we shot the graphic match which took a lot of our time.