Evaluation - Preliminary task - Conversation

Storyboard (Pre-Production)

When preparing our story board for the perminalary task we faced a few problems which we had to change. When drawing our Story board we did not know about the 180 degree rule so during the conversation the camera would've been on the left hand side of each persons sholder which would have broke the 180degree rule but during the actual footage; we filmed behind one persons left sholder and the other persons right shoulder which did not break the 180degree rule.

While drawing the story board we did not know what room we were going to film in. Because, our camera shots included filming the door opening, the door opened the opposite way it was suppose to on our story board.

Filming

During Filming we decided we wanted to film somebodys feet walking through the door to their chair. But our hands were to unsteady to do this so we decided to use a cardboard box and slide it over to make a smoother and cleaner shot.

When filming we only had one camera which meant we had to do everything a few times to get the shots we needed which means we needed a script. We did not have a script and had to make one while filming otherwise we would be saying something different at every camera angle.

We were lucky enough to do our conversation in the conference room as it was quiet and away from the school, but on that Friday there were students taking parents around the school for the open day and that made a lot of background noise while we were talking. So we had to stop for a while until people stopped looking through the window and the noise died down, then we could continue filming but after the five minute gap we started losing focus and kept forgetting our lines.

The conference room was also too small for our needs. We were going to do a long shot with the two of us sitting round a table facing each other but we could not do this due to the size of the room. If we moved ourselves or the camera it would've been too obvious so we decided not to include this.

Editing

One of the main problems we had while editing is that we did not actually have enough footage so we had to go back and film again but various other problems arised such as the lighting (sun position) was not the same and that the conference room was locked; because of the tight time schedule we had, we did not have any time to get someone to open the room for us so had to do it another day.

There was also a problem with sound. When we cut from one scene to the next the background sound was completely different. We could not turn the back ground noise down due to the speaking so it was obvious that there was a change in camera angle, where as in movies the camera change is usually very subtle.

The mics on the Cameras were not so good. When speaking, the camera would look at me but that meant the camera would be opposite me which did not catch the most sound. We had to get audio from a seperate recording where my voice was louder.

When we finished editing the movie we decided to add a soundtrack as well as credits displaying our names. Our introductions had a plain black screen with our names across the screen. We also have a upbeat theme tune running in the background. This is very similar to the beginning of Lock Stock and two smokin' Barrels as we are looking to do a British Gangster movie.