Prelim Task Evaluation

Prelim Task Evaluation

When we created our prelim tasks I was the director of my group which means that I was the person who was making sure that my group was performing their roles properly so that we were all producing efficient work. For example during filming I had to make sure that our cameraman was the filming the scenes in a specific way (tracking, shooting from certain angle, etc.). The briefing was to create a short clip which includes the editing and camera techniques that we had researched in the past. 

Overall I believe that we meet most of the briefing as we had a wide variety of different shots and editing techniques so that it didn’t the clip wasn’t boring. However, there were also times when we didn’t meet the briefing for example while we used loads of different techniques we still missed out a few that I believe we could have incorporated into our prelim.I think that we were very successful during the production of our clip as we followed a majority of the scripts and storyboards that we created so we always knew what we had to do. 

Also I was unsure of the difficulties we were going to have when using the film cameras as before this all of us had only used digital cameras but I was surprised how quickly are cameraman got the hang of using it which made filming go much quicker than we first anticipated. But there were things that my group was unsuccessful with the main thing were our teamwork skills. I say this because during our first day of filming there were times where we butted heads as we all believed that certain things could have been shot in a better way which lead to a few minor arguments however we eventually resolved all of these issues and filming continued. 

Also we had to re film certain scenes as we had a combination of digital camera footage and film camera footage which lead to noticeable quality drops during production but we managed to resolve it quickly.During our production I’ve learnt how to direct a small film group and multiple film techniques to make sure that our film is of high quality. I also learnt how to edit films using Final Cut Pro which includes cutting clips together, applying transitions (fade in/out) and adding background music to make clips more interesting. 

I will use what I’ve learnt to make sure to improve our main task such as new camera techniques to create more interesting shots and I’ll use my editing techniques to make the final film look professional.When looking at my groups time management I think that we could have done much better as to my knowledge we were one of the last groups to finish filming as we had to re shoot some scenes with the film cameras this meant that we had less time to edit than the rest of the groups. This was also concerning considering that my group had one of the shorter prelim clips just going over 30 seconds so we should have been one of the first to finish. So one my main goal for directing our final film will be managing our time so we can improve our film.