Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

Brief

Produce a 30 second clip to exhibit a scene on TV with the manipulation of basic film production techniques (lighting, sound, editing etc.) as well as employment of match-on-action, the 180-degree rule and shot/reverse shots. The narrative of the scene should include a character opening a door and sitting down opposite another character with whom they exchange a couple of lines of dialogue with.  

         Planning process and pre production 

The planning process involved producing a storyboard to give the director a clear visual of what to do film, shot, cut and complete. Another individual key aspect of the planning process includes the script, it plays an important role as it provides the narrative feature of the film. A shot list was required too as it helped the director to have step by step guide for each scene and shot. 

                                                             Strength and Weakness 

The most impressive aspect of the preliminary exercise was the flash backs that were used effectively when our main character was recalling previous moments that were key to the clip.  The back and forth cuts as the character made her way to and forth from the elevator to the door. The non diegetic sound of the music playing out loud acting as the music in her headphones was effectively used by creating a lifting atmosphere. However there are many things that could have been improved such as the sound once she came into the room, the characters dialogue could barely be heard and the background noise of machinery from the a/c and computers made it difficult and the mic also picked it up along with the dialogue. The cuts between each person was very noticeable and could have easily been fixed and strengthen by smoothing it out.