Preliminary Exercise Final Cut

Preliminary Exercise Final Cut

Evaluation of the Preliminary Exercise

For this Task I was in a group with Amber Law, Matt Elsom, Cristi MacFarlane and Tom Hurst. Overall i believe that we did good job of our preliminary exercise we made a few mistakes which we will have learnt from for next time. We correctly used all the necessary techniques such as match on action following someone walk through a door and over the shoulder shots to show a conversation for an interview. The biggest mistake made by our group was when we had taken shots. A few of them the camera was angled too high showing too much of what was above the characters. There is also the shot of the clock that did not work as we wished it would, it just looked out of place and ridiculous. Apart from them all the other shots were steady, and used appropriate camera angles.

Editing worked well and the whole piece ran through smoothly. The scene ran for exactly 30 seconds which it was supposed to do, we cut it down by shortening each clip that was perhaps longer than needed to be. One shot that I believe we did well during editing was when one of the characters was walking through the door it when from POV of them pushing down the door handle to the door being pushed open from the inside of the room. This worked as it was cut at the right moment so it did not overlap. 

All of the sound went according to plan with no unwanted back ground noise, there was only one shot where the sound did not go according to plan. In the POV shot of the door handle being opened there is no sound at all. We did not know this had happened until we got to editing. If we had more time for this exercise we would have shot that again. In the end the absence of sound in the shot worked as it builds tension before he goes in for the interview. 
Overall for our first production I believe our scene went well.