Preliminary Task Evaluation

It was quite difficult to do our preliminary task, because we have only got two people in our group which meant we had to go and find other people to be in our preliminary task. We couldn't both be in it as one of us had to film it. This meant that we had to work around when other people were available, so it was quite difficult to get it done. Also, we had to re-film a lot of scenes because we filmed the preliminary task in the school hallways and a lot of the time there were teachers or students in the background, and we wanted it to look as professional as we could given that we filmed in the school. Aside from this we also had to re-film bits because of continuity editing - we had left bags and things like that lying around in different places in between shots. Additionally we didn't like the location that we picked, which was the canteen, because we were meant to film in an office however we weren't able to get permission in time for filming so we had to film in the canteen, which wasn't very professional as our preliminary task was meant to be set in an office.

However despite this we found that we worked very well in the group and with people outside of the group. Everyone listened to what the director was saying and the way that she was telling people to act in order to get the best results. We also found that editing the video was quite easy and we liked the way that our match-on-action shot turned out as it really seemed to flow and there were no flaws in our editing as we have all agreed as we did the best that we could and were very happy with the result. It was also great because although we were filming a professional kind of scene, we still managed to have fun on set and we all were able to joke around and still be a team and get things done, especially when we all sat down and made sure that nobody was doing or saying anything that they didn't want to do or say.We made sure everyone was happy during filming, so that everybody was friendly and we had no attitude problems.

I think overall we did quite well because we worked so hard as a team and the editing (which both people in the group contributed to) flowed very nicely and was very clean cut. However perhaps if we had included more shot types it would've made our preliminary task more interesting. We did do some of  the shots such as match-on-action, however we didn't do it very well as we didn't have a clear understanding of it so we hope that in our opening sequence we will have a better match-on-action shot to show that we have really improved since this task.