For this task, I will be evaluating my group's preliminary exercise video that we assembled as a 4 to create this short 1-minute video. Within my group, it was me, Emman, Ellis and Harvey.
Firstly, starting off with our planning process, I think our planning process was the reason why we as a group filmed our 1-minute preliminary exercise within 1 hour. Within our planning process, we as a group had to do the script of the video, storyboard of the video and the shot list for the video. Each individual would do each one so that the planning process would be quicker and it was. Moreover, beginning with our script that we created for our short video. Making the script before shooting the video was a huge benefit to us. It was beneficial to us because it allowed us to know what kind of video we are going to shoot. Also, it helps us acknowledge our own lines as actors within the video. Within our script, we made sure that we finished the whole script before shooting because then the actors would know what to say and also, we as a production group would know what type of genre or what the narrative it is and it helps us to think about more ideas to make it more interesting while shooting the video. Additionally, moving onto the storyboard of our preliminary exercise video. We as a group had to make sure that one of the individuals did the storyboard so later on while shooting the video, it will help us know how to layout the video. For example, we would know how to create the narrative a little more dramatic. Also, the storyboard was a giveaway of the genre which helped us to know what aspects of film language to include so that it can be more dramatic and significant. Furthermore, with our shot list, it was a huge benefit to us to plan because it helped us, later, on to know what to do immediately with the Shot list, Storyboard and the script. With our shot list, it included all the shot types such as what angle or shot type such as Close up shot we were going to use for our preliminary exercise video. While shooting, the shot list certainly gave us a huge insight of what to do and how the video was going to turn out. Also, it helped us to know what shot type to shoot after each one as in the shot list, they are all ordered from the start to the end. In addition, we as a group would definitely put more effort into planning because we didn't put much effort nor brief into our planning. And due to this, our final production wasn't as satisfying and didn't turn out how we expected to turn out.
Our preliminary exercise video certainly did contain strengths as well as
weaknesses but in this paragraph, I will be evaluating my video positively so I
will look at the strengths of our video. Firstly, with the preliminary exercise
video, we had to add in match-on-action shot, shot/reverse shot and 180-degree
rule shot. These 3 shots had to be included within the video somewhere and we
did add all the 3 vital and needed shots. With the match-on-action shot, we
placed it at 0:12 seconds of the video where from one shot, it showed the actor
kicking the door and it eventually moved to another shot where the scene
continued. This match-on-action shot was a crucial shot as it made our
preliminary exercise video look more professional and significant. Moreover, with
the shot/reverse shot, we used that at 0:24 where the shot starts. A
shot/reverse shot is when the camera is placed behind a subject's head, almost
like over the shoulder shot and then after, the camera moves behind the
another subject. This shot was an appealing shot type as it made our video more
elegant with more shots rather than having one dull shot where it catches every
action. Furthermore, with the 180-degree shot, we used that at 0:24 seconds as
well. A 180-degree rule is a similar shot type to shot/reverse shot. Moving on,
another strength of our video was that the focus on each subject made it better
as when one subject was speaking, the focus was on that subject. Moreover, as
the video began, the pace of the video was immediately fast which suited the
action going on within the video. It makes it more dramatic; almost trying to
make it realistic by making it the same pace as the action. Lastly, the
lighting within the video certainly did suit the genre and the narrative of the
video and it made it look more intriguing as it linked with the brutal
narrative which involves abuse and inappropriate words. An example of a good
lighting would be that at 0:26 seconds of the video, we are introduced to a
"Master-like" character that speaks to the abducted character calmly
and confidently. According to the narrative, that character was a spy-like
character and the lighting to make him not visible at 0:26 seconds, it makes
him look dangerous and more better as the role of a Spy-Like character. We know
that Spy-like characters are mysterious and deadly so we as a group thought of
an idea to make the character less visible with the low-key lighting so it can
make more sense to the audience of who he is and how dangerous he is. Our
preliminary exercise video certainly did turn out to contain weaknesses that we
as a group need to reflect on. Not just our preliminary exercise video that
contained weaknesses but it was also our lack of communication between each
other within our group. Firstly, starting off with the weaknesses within our
preliminary exercise video, the first thing that we acknowledged something
wrong was that the non-diegetic sound that we added when editing to make it
more dramatic, came out to be extremely loud which made it harder for the audience
to understand the dialogue. The sound certainly did distract the audience from
watching the clip. The audience were rather more worried that they were able to
hear the non-diegetic sound but not the dialogue and the dialogue is the main
part of the understanding of the audience. With the dialogues, they are the
biggest thing to how the audience understand the movie and the narrative of it
and for that to be taken over by a dramatic sound, it really destroyed our
video and the expectations that we had of the video. Furthermore, another
weakness was that the camera movement was always too dramatic even when the
actors were placed on the table, the camera was moving quite heavily and it
frustrated us and the audience as they weren't able to see the actors properly
as the camera kept on moving and the actors were sometimes disappearing from
the camera frame. Moving onto the weaknesses of the teamwork within our group.
We as a group certainly didn't communicate well with each other. This is
because we all as individuals started to edit our own exercise video on the
Adobe Premiere even though we weren't supposed to. Also because we didn't know
who was doing the editing so we kind of drifted our own ways. This is something
that we should certainly reflect on as this mistake is really common when
working within a group. Lack of communication brings pessimistic side into it
later on and that is what happened; our video didn't end up how we expected it
to turn out.
No comments:
Post a Comment