Preliminary Evaluation

In our preliminary task, we filmed and edited a short video involving two actors in a corridor having a confrontation. The brief storyline is that one character decides to stab another, and then walks away having left his body dead on the floor. We did this task as a practice for when we film our opening sequence to a film of the genre thriller.

We used lots of micro elements. These included using a variety of camera angles, different camera shots and different editing techniques. For example, the jump cut and the fade in fade out effect were used within our video to make it more effective and run more smoothly. We also stuck very closely to the 180 degree rule. This was to make sure that the video seemed more realistic to the viewer, and didn't confuse them with different angles and characters. Other micro elements we used were digetic and non digetic sound. The digetic sound was used to make the video seem more natural, but the only digetic sound that was necessary to keep in the video was the speech as the rest of the sound was just muffled background noise. To add interest, we used non digetic sound by adding a soundtrack that we believe fitted with the mood and style of our video and also worked well with the genre. One problem that we experienced however was copyright on our video. The song that we tried to use had copyright on it, and we were therefore unable to successfully upload it to youtube and to blogger.

We learned a lot during our preliminary task. We learned to use our time effectively as the time we have is very important. Time is important because if we don't use the time well within the lesson, then our product may be unfinished and therefore not as good as it could be. We also learned that when we use soundtracks to add to our video as non digetic sound, we should check for copyright first otherwise all sound may be removed from the video when we try and upload it to blogger and youtube.

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