Sophie Teasdale Evaluation question 7

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full task?

• I am now very aware of the use of space (framing), such as, when filming the shot reverse shot, in the preliminary task we didn't make use of the space within the frame. We placed the camera further away from the subject and this created a blank empty space next to her face. Therefore, the positioning of the camera is vital.
  In the main task we made sure that our framing was tighter.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  


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• When re shooting sound we knew sound would be not be a issue because in our opening we choose to use mostly non diegetic sound apart from one scene when the stalker screws up the paper as this adds to the theme of being a stalker (throwing away evidence). In our Preliminary task we used verbal communication and when we had to re shoot the backgrounds sounds were different (this applied for lighting to as the lighting of the room was different when we re shot) this made the continuity worse.

• The cameras we used in the preliminary task showed that in future we should always check to see if the battery was full/semi full and sound was working as this would save us from re shooting in the future.

• Also, getting actors and actresses was difficult as we wanted to use someone with the same time off as our group so that we could use as much time as possible with them this is why we only used three actors. The main problem with actors and actresses was getting them to wear the same clothes when we needed to them to film, as even if we had the same location, the same lighting and sound and was ready with the camera the continuity would not be right if they were wearing different clothes therefore, we told our actor the days he needed to wear the same clothes and we made him wear his hood so that his hair being the same length wouldn't affect re shooting.
  
  
  



• The availability of both the actor or actresses and locations proved that it would be a problem, as we had to re shoot allot of the preliminary work consequently, we had to pick somewhere simple, and that we had to choose an actor who we knew and gain access to most of the time (i.e using Talal who's in our group).