Preliminary Task - Production

We had good and bad points within the production of our Prelim filming. Some of the problems we faced were: The disagreements and different idea’s within our group slowed our production down, as we all had our own individual ideas on how our Prelim should be shot. As well as that we all needed to practice our camera skills, as no one among us had used a camera before, this took up a lot of time and took a lot of discussion within the group, which has ultimately resulted in our group becoming closer and becoming more of a team. Just as we were getting started we had trouble with reflections and shadows in the glass, this did prove to be a problem, however with careful thinking we managed to angle the camera at a tilt that solved the problems. Before we started shooting our group developed a storyboard as a guide to our prelim. This helped us a lot as it gave us a guideline of how to shot.

Lessons learned within our Prelim task were of the following: We learnt we must communicate more within our group to achieve the task thoroughly and efficiently, as we spent a long period of time debating camera angles and techniques. For our main task- our Thriller- we shall plan our shots out to a further extent to save time with the production. Saying this we shall also do several more takes at different angles to give us a wider range of shots.

Planning, shooting and editing was all very quick, I expected it to take a lot longer as none of us had ever done anything like this before. However i think if our group had spent less time disagreeing on what shots to use then we may have finished a lot sooner. If we shot our prelim task again I’d focus less on the storyline of the task and more on the accuracy and steadiness of the shooting. I’d practice my panning as it was very jerky and I’d try and make the entire task run a lot smoother and more efficiently. Overall though I’ glad we get the opportunity to do the prelim task as it gave us good practice with the camera’s and it showed us what we need to be careful of when filming our thriller. I’m sure the rest of my group would agree in saying that shooting the prelim developed our team skills, camera skills and our planning skills.