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.