Evaluation of Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task, we had to produce a video of somebody walking into a room and having a conversation with somebody. This had to fit into 3 genres, teen drama, police drama or a hospital drama.

Our film is teen drama. It is similar to any other film in which we use good camera shots, a believable script and it has been edited reasonably well using good sound effects. We used shot reverse, the 180 degree rule and match on action. All of these techniques are used by any real media products. The way in which we decided to structure is good by showing the ending first but from a different perspective. The only problem with our film is the quality of the tape we used. In the first half of the tape, there are parts where it stutters and it begins to blur. Also the sound is effected because it goes very quiet and you miss some of the speech.

Our premilinary task is aimed at teenagers because it is a teen drama. I think that some adults would watch it because it is a similar genre to Hollyoaks. Teen drama’s cover particular issues that teenagers may go through and our media product is trying to fit into it and make it believable.

To get to the target audience we attempted to create a sense of realism. We made a script that could be realted to by some teenagers. Also we looked at other peoples preliminary tasks and looked what made there’s good. We did have difficulty on deciding what genre we wanted at first but then we agreed on teen drama. Also we had many ideas on what to do for the script but we didn’t want to over-complicate things.

I think that during filming we had several problems. We filmed part of our video before the end of the term, and when we got back we discovered that our location of filming was being decorated which limited what we could film. Also we had a problem with one of the people in my group became ill and missed several weeks and also another member of the group was missing when trying to film leaving just me and somebodyelse to film and act at the same time which was very difficult. We also had a problem with the tape so the quality wasn’t very good.

Over the course I have learnt how to use the different cameras and how to set up to the tri-pod to where the required position. Also I have learned differnet techniques about how to make your movie look proffesional like the 180 degree rule. After learning these I can notice them in movies and t.v programmes and I can now appreciate the affect they have on the viewer. I have also got know the computers and the way they work alot better from the editing of the film.

If we were to do this task then I think we need to pick a better location and to keep it simple. For my main task I think that we will be quicker on setting up the equipment and editing because we know how evrything works. I think we can produce work that is better than our preliminary task in our main task. I think that the preliminary task was good due to the circumstances. I was happy in how we worked together in the way we made our media product.