EVALUATION 7 - looking back at our preliminary task, what do I feel we have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Well chicas and chicos, we have learnt a considerable amount since our start as freshies back in the days of the continuity exercise to our final days of today; most notably our continuity awareness and filming techniques, as well as the working relationship between our group which was consisted of people not accustomed to each other (apart from two of the gallies who were).

During our continuity exercise, we made mistakes in terms of continuity (misplacing objects and positions all over the place) and over-looking natural disadvantages (seagulls flying around in background). Our match on action shot of me handing the puffy toy to Eve was clumsy, as we had included it halfway through the exercise which constructed another error to continuity. Our match on action shot in the main task, of Louis opening the door, went quite smoothly.

Our match on action shot in the main task, of Louis opening the door, went quite smoothly.

The whole continuity exercise was based around the 180 degree rule, and that went fine (I mean we would have had to purposely disobey it if we got it wrong for that exercise as there was no moving around for the actors) We used it into our main task so the continuity ran smoothly, and there was one instance when we had to replace a shot because we had indeed made a mistake concerning it (as mentioned previously).

Nearly the whole continuity exercise consisted of using the shot/reverse shot as it was all a conversation. In the main task, we had shot the sequence when the interrogation officer comes in all in the style of shot/reverse shot, but those clips ended up being deleted due to inappropiate yet accidental face expressions (ruining the realism obviously). There are now none in the finished piece.

Obviously we couldn't do much editing techniques for the continuity exercise as it was about ten seconds long or so, but we had more to play around with in the main task which resulted in the little montage and all the transitions as well as effects (colour). Though originally, we had hoped to put some effects or sounds into the continuity piece but did not eventually get the time.

A large factor to the whole project was the relationship between the group, as we had to rely on each other and trust each other as well as bond enough to not fight all the time and ruin the whole thing! Though it was sort of awkward during the first couple of sessions, we got pretty cool together and we succeeded in working well together.