We have come to the end of our preliminary task and overall I think my group worked well together from filming, editing and acting. We stuck to our original plan even though we did cut a lot of the scenes we had initially decided to put in our sequence. We cut it down with the good shots we had and we completed the task.
I was mainly doing the editing of our film, also I filmed a few of the shots of Vidur and the conversation. Kate also did a lot of filming. We had to cut lots of our footage but it was better to have the selection of lots of clips instead of the very minimal.
Annabell wrote out the dialogue and acted in our piece. She gave good ideas into our task and we all took these into account. Overall, I was quite please with the outcome of this task.
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Q1: At a micro, technical level, how well did you film the tasks required - match on action, continuity filming, shot/reaction/shot and exchanging dialogue?
A1: Whilst filming the preliminary task, I think we approached the task and completed it very well as a group. We have continuity throughout the sequence and the way that our finished film looks, it looks like it is all happening at one time. I think at some points our shots could have been a bit more stable with use of the tripod but this is something we won’t make the mistake with during the filming of our main task.
Q2: How many mistakes did you make, and what have you learnt about filming?
A2: After filming, we noticed that we had a lot of pauses before and after the actors began or ended the scene. This hesitation looks obvious, so we had to split the clip to get rid of that. Also, we had a problem with one of our dialogue clips of Annabell, as the audio was not working so we had to cut the clip where it was appropriate. I also learnt about the 180 degree rule which I think we applied but I was a bit unsure about this after Vidur walked inside the building.
Q3: If you had to do the task again, what would you do differently?
A3: First of all we would take some practice shots to get a feel for the way we would begin the dialogue in the shot and everything. This would probably take less time if we had taken the time to try it out first. All of our shots were kind of a first time so there was no rehearsal. This may have been a good idea.
Q4: Describe how you edited the footage, and any problems you encountered.
A4: I edited the footage using Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0. I used fade in and fade out effects to begin and end the piece. The only real problem I encountered was the audio in one of the clips which we ended up cutting in the end anyway. We could have re-filmed that shot but instead of wasting time and in order to meet the deadline, we had to cut it instead. There were no other major problems with editing, only the fact that the computer was so slow and it took ages to load up each separate clip making it very frustrating to edit!
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