Evaluation

We are quite happy with our continuity task, as we included all of the required criteria. We are also pleased as we know that we have improved many of the skills we need for our final video, such as editing, being more aware of the 180 degree rule, getting action matches right and being able to do shot reverse shot. However, there are many aspects of the piece that we could have improved for example at times the camera is shaky, we discussed how to overcome this problem and decided that we need to make sure that the camera is loose enough on the tripod for us to move it easily and carry out fluid tilt/pans. But if we found that we still had this problem we could cut between shots instead of filming continuous movements. When evaluating our film we also realised that we put in a fade between the conversation which is used to suggest a passage of time - we did not intend this. We are also aware that we must improve our framing as one of the characters head is cut off at one point, we will ensure that this does not happen in our final piece. Also after evaluating our video and reading other peoples comments we realised that there is a slight break of the 180 degree rule, after making this mistake we will know not to make it again. We were happy with our song choices as we thought that they were good at representing the type of environment that we were trying to portray, however there are times when the audio wasn't very clear, to avoid this happening in our final piece we will include effects such as cross fades to make it clearer. We regret using zooms in our video as they seem to be quite jerky and we feel like they don't look professional, we are not going to use any zooms unless we really need to. We are now aware of all of the errors we have made and will be sure not to make them in our final piece.