Aaron rusk Evaluation of preliminary task

For our preliminary task we had to film a minuet story what included someone open and walking through the door with match on action, then have that character sit down and have a conversation with someone what had to include a least 2 spoken dialog for each of them. It also had to include the 180° rule and shot reverse shot. Before thing about any of these our group had to think of an Idea to do and where we would film it. The genre was going to be mafia and the location was going to be the chapel due to the mafia being religious it would suit it perfectly. Next we were going to need script but it only took 5 minutes before we were ready to go and film. The script was simple enough but with the time we had it would have to do. I ended up joining the group around this stage because it was easier to have 4 groups of 4 than a random 2, this meant they had to write in a role for me but because of how the script was written it meant it was easy to add me in.

Next stage was production and my personal favourite. As soon as we got to the chapel the first thing we sorted out was the lighting because we wanted the lighting to create an effect in our preliminary. We was able to black out the room and make it so the only light was lighting up the alter and this gave the idea for the first seen of Eryk praying. After that we wanted to film the match on action and someone walking through a door scene, we didn’t realise until editing how dark it was but we was able to sort that out later. We made sure that we included as many of the thing we needed to included early on so that we wouldn’t have to try a fit them in later. As we was running out of time we just had to film the last scene of them talking but it came to be harder than we first thought due to bloopers. But we were able to finish it on time and get the entire scene we needed done and we couldn’t wait to edit it.          

Lastly was the editing and for this we separated into 2 team with me and Arthur and Eryk and Emily. We both had the same clips so the end product we pretty similar but so noticeable differences. We wanted music in the background because without it , it would just seem to plain and both groups did the same sort of music but when it got about half way through you can start to see the differences with the amount of time on each scene and at the end we thought it would be good to add in the bloopers at the end. We spent most of the time trying to make the scene fit as much as possible and we were cutting them down and making it so it is harder to notice the chance in scene. This was the first time either of us edited something but we have learned a lot and will be able to use our skills later on.