Evaluation of my exchange exercise

I filmed this exercise about three weeks ago with two other people. This exercise was supposed to bring in some film noir characteristics. I think that I did fine in this piece but to be honest I didn’t get that much of a chance to do a lot of shooting neither editing.

Altogether I think that the editing was not that bad it stuck together but one thing went wrong as it takes a long time to pass the envelope, it takes a long time for the other person to collect the envelope and we could of could of cut that shorter to look better.

The shots were very good, when we were shooting this we did a lot of shooting and we explored a lot of different shots (Long shot, low-angle shot). I think that though that we could of added more close up of faces because this shows the expression of people which would of been more realistic like film noir shots.

We went well with the costumes for instance we had long overcoats and that is what a lot of film noir go with. The location was good as this was just an average location that it is like an everyday location and in film noir’s a lot of things happen in everyday location.

The sound went well we had taken this music from the film noir D.O.A. It goes well with the fact it is very suspicious but also keeps you up beat with the sequence. But from other member’s of my class 50% said it was confusing as they were not sure as it would go with this shooting, but some say it did, it was a split decision.

The rule of thirds again we did the same problem as it was better but still it had too much wasted space, but the eye line was fine better than before. We were almost about to cross the 180 degree line rule because when I come towards the camera I do not work straight towards it I angled off. We finally fixed handles and we had no problems editing this time.

In conclusion I think that I didn’t produce a rubbish piece of work but the camera skills are getting better than the other two exercises I have done. But practice makes perfect and hopefully by my next exercise (Film noir opening) I must take all of these things more into concentration.

Evaluation of my preliminary exercise.

I think that some of my work in this project was bad; in the way that the shots that i used (over the shoulder shot) was not as good as my partner because you don't actually see the other person shoulder near the camera. I think I need more coverage also. For my next exercise(The exchange) I think I need to improve just get more handles in.

Some of the Editing wasn't good but a few minor things such as the boy walks in and leaves the door open but when you see him sitting down it's closed. That's something that next time i have to make more attention to small things. Also I didn't leave no handles and this made it very hard to edit

I think that the sound of when the boy opens the door and everything was fine but the dialogue is hard to hear.

I have to improve 'The Rule of Thirds.' because in the frame i need more looking space for the actors and also I need to put the actor's along the axis, as this makes this more interesting than the actor being bang in the middle.

Another thing to improve is 'Framing' becuase like i said in 'The Rule of Thirds' I need more looking space but also I have alot of unwanted space in the frame so I think that the next exercise I do, i should zoom closer or place the camera agaisnt a white or dull background.

I think that altogether my preliminary exercise was good because of the fact that I have only done one other shooting which was just practicing different shots. So this wasn't so bad but I few things i need to focus on before my next exercise and also my major finished exercise which is The open to a film noir thriller.

I have learnt from this exercise how to edit but that is only because this is the first time I have edited. Also I think that by my next exercise if I ever use an over the shoulder shot I actually have to put in the shoulder because sometimes in this exercise you see a shoulder and then sometimes you don't see it. Also by my next exercise I have to remember my framing as there is a lot of unwanted space that is not important for the video.