Preliminary Assessment Evaluation - By Sarah Ellis

Use of the Camera 
Our finished work doesn't really provide evidence that we can hold a shot steady; purely because of the fact that most of the shots we used were panning and tracking shots; hence the camera shots were moving instead of still. Although there were a few still shots, which proved that we could hold a shot steadily, as shown in the first image.
We were able to frame shots properly as we avoided missing off the top of peoples heads; which we accidentally did in some of our previous test shots. We tried to maintain the rule of thirds throughout but it was more difficult when conducting panning shots.
We were able to include quite a wide variety shot types. We included quite a few mid shots. We used close up shots for effect or to point out a particular thing. Eg. We used a close up/Mid shot with the hand shot to emphasise the hand. We also used long shots which was effective when filming walking/travelling shots as shown in the third image  The majority of our shots were eye line shots, although we managed to include low and high angle shots. I believe that this worked well. This is shown in the second image.

Use of Editing

I believe that we have applied the rules of continuity editing. We ensured that our actor's movements were not jumpy and filmed shots more than once with the actor doing the same thing, to ensure that if we used a shot from a different angle, it wouldn't look jumpy. We cut clips precisely and tried hard not to cut them too early or too late. The background noise for each clip was clearly different, so we added music in the background to try and mask this and I believed it worked quite effectively. We used two different pieces of music but made them fade in and out so they didn't just 'appear' in the clip.

We made the decision to not include transitions to link our clips together as we believe that it would ruin the effect created by just the clips being put together.

Selection of Content
Our finished film doesn't really show any evidence for appropriate costume, make-up or props for our genre as we had to film it in class time without any of our resources. I believe that we chose an appropriate location and setting for our genre as the woods were quite eerie, yet there was still reasonable room to move around and film. Because we had to film in class time, we had to use Tom from our group for the part. I believe that Tom did well and that he acted convincingly anyway. I had to act one of the parts but to be fair I didn't really have to do anything but stand there.

Self-assessment
To help complete the film I contributed by filming various parts. I filmed the beginning panning shot and the low angle shot. In planning, I helped discuss which shots and angles could be used with my group and helped complete the shot list. I helped edit the film also. I split the film clips so that they would be easier to edit and helped cut clips also.
I believe some improvements which could be made to our finished film is to include make up and proper costume and also to find a different way of making the background noise the same all the way through. We could have also added titles but it proved to be a lot of hassle when we were trying to add it.
When it comes to our final coursework film I believe that we will make sure that we are more prepared and allow ourselves more filming time.

Peessh Out :)
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evaluation by dan smith :)

1. Our finished work shows that we can hold a camera steady in hand and on the tripod. we are able to frame the shot properly with the rule of thirds and without missing the top of peoples heads. we used many shot types like  the long shot (as seen below), the two shot ( as seen to the right), and the over the shoulder shot (in the middle).

2. secondly our work can show that we can use continuity editing as our film flows together. we didn't use any transitions but it does flow well together.

3. our film does show that we have chosen carefully our costume and location. we also had to use our selves as actors but i think we complimented our own work. 

4. i helped film and put across my thoughts on how it should be shot. i also helped chose the setting and direct the production. if we could of used some longer bits of film would of helped also certain sounds and visual affects would of helped but the ones we wanted were not available. i dont think i would change anything for our final assesment because i think it all went swimmingly :)

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Individual assessment - TOM NUNN

1. Use of camera

from doing our practical assessment i can see that we in a group are capable of holding the camera still, however we used a wobbly camera effect deliberately to create a more realistic walk through the woods that gave the effect of someone following him.

we can frame a shot effectively and appropriately as we were professional in our approach and got the correct shot types such as high or the shoulder, extreme close up and close up.

 Mainly our shots were at eye line as this was used in the model we were attempting to recreate.



This shows us using a pan shot, which is mainly what we used, Pan and track which didnt provide us with a great amount of leway in terms of showing our camera skills.



Over the shoulder MCU



2. Use of editing

we ensured that when editing our clips that the main character was not jumpy in his movements and we also spit into an appropriate amount of clips. we put a scary music background noise as an attempt to raise the suspense and when the woman screamed we interpreted in our own sound as in the original footage the actress was incapable of screaming. We then changed the music as the actor runs away from the woman who just screamed into a more upbeat and tense sound as if to suggest he is going to be followed.

we decided no to use transitions in our editing as it would affect the suspense of the overall piece as it might be interupted and appear less scary.



At this point we edited in the womans scream to make it sound more spooky



3.  selection of content

we used appropriate props of a black hoodie with the woman which made her appear uncertain and scary, and we used a very good setting, despite it not being our original location. The seeting of the bushy woods makes it seem a lot more dense and less like we've just acted in some bushes next to a road. moreover there was a bit of background noise of cars but we edited it out.

the actors were just what we needed, one man and one woman, i was the man, however i still took a very active part in how the filming took place.

4. self assessment

I helped overall to make the film by being the main actor and choosing the setting. I also contributed towards the planning of the camera angles and the actual filming itself. i helped edit as i assisted my group in choosing appropriate moments to split the video at playheads and chose the best footage in terms of acting to create suspense and camera ability.

we could improve the finished film by adding more effects in the editing and by maybe re-shooting with more skilled actors that can actually appear to be scared rather than my failed attempt! also a more discrete location would secure that we could se genuine sounds of footsteps.

when it comes to my final overall peice of coursework i will most certainly use better actors and more props so that it feels the video has more authenticity.



Preliminary Assessment

This is our Preliminary assesement. It was filmed at about 2.30 on Tuesday the 19th. We filmed it on the Bilborough campus because do to lack of time we were forced to act ourselves without costume and make-up but considering that we think it went well.

Composition Exercise

The rule of thirds are when you split your shot into 9 squares,  and that we should aim to hit the intersection point at when you want something interesting to be filmed. I believe that we used the rule of thirds well and tried to achieve it as precisely as we could. We used head room quite well as we managed to not cut anyones head off on shots as we've accidently done before. We also used lead room for walking scenes to ensure it looks like the actor has space to walk into. I believe that the shots we used looked amazing in comparison to our previous short films.

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Assessment Exercise Original

this is the video we are copying 40 seconds from ! 

Take two!!!!

We have achieved continutity editing but it still jumps a little between a few shots. Our shots are framed better than the last attempt and we varied them more. We included all but one shot which we lost unfortunately. It has again quite a fast pace. It could be improved by adding in the lost shot and also mastering camera techniques better.

Peace Out.

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Rawwwwrrr

Test Project

Our video has achieved almost seamless editing. There are a few quite mild jumps. We can see this as the main character repeats his motions and sound may falter between scenes. We have framed our shots as best we could using the over the shoulder shot, close up shot and wide shot. We missed one shot of feet as he was climbing the stairs, otherwise all other planned shots were filmed. Our piece has quite a light atmosphere as the shots are very bright. The pace is quite fast. This could have been improved by having no background disturbance. The camera work could be improved by adding more different angles.

Peace out :) 

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GOM NOM

First Movie Project

Evaluation
We have a mid c.u and an extreme close up, a mid shot although no over the shoulder angle. However, we did use a two shot and a nice high angle shot to include our victim and our stalker and make it seem more tense and appear as if he was about to catch her... SUSPENSE!

We included enough shots, however we made a few mistakes where people were in the same place more than once! Whoops.
It has atmosphere, however, the amateur actors kind of made it more comedy...
This could have been improved if we took more shots and rather than moving the camera while still filming, we could have made it much smoother. In addition, whilst filming we need to work on controlling our background sound. The film makes sense and has a general plot, in which the boy follows her and catches her in the end. Furthermore, despite lack of rhythm, the film has character and WE ARE PROUD :D

xxxxxxx <3 Peace out !