Preliminary Task Evaluation

For our preliminary task we were asked to create a short clip in which featured walking through a door and having a conversation, the rest of the details were down to our own interpretation.

We started off filming the walk down the corridor to the door through which we would film our match-on-action. I feel the match-on-action was executed quite well for our first time.

We included a total of three match-on-actions throughout the clip, two involving waking through doors and another which occurred when the investigator dropped their phone.

We also included a cut-away to show the point of view of two different characters during the same time period. This occurred when the investigator left the room leaving the ‘cannibal’ character alone.

 I feel that the sound effects used at the opening of the clip were effective and relevant to the theme. Some of the sound effects used later on in the clip were slightly too loud, if we were to be given this task again we would make the sound effects a more appropriate volume.

Another aspect that we would do differently now would be too make sure that we are paying close attention to the 180 degree rule. In one instance in the hallway we didn’t follow this rule or the rule of continuity, meaning that we had to cut a small section of a scene and use white outs to cover this up. The finished product still followed the rules but we had to sacrifice an otherwise good scene.