Preliminary Task and evaluation

Overall I would say that this Preliminary task was fairly successful, considering it was one of our first video pieces.

Firstly, I feel we responded well to the task, which is to create a short piece involving two people meeting and talking. We displayed all the shots included in the criteria, such as over the shoulder shots, match on action and use of the 180 degree rule. We also added some of our own shots including a panning shot and some long shots.

I also feel that the script of this Preliminary was an effective use of the task prompt. We based our piece around a mysterious woman who is being interrogated by an agency official for known reasons, which I feel was effective at creating an interesting premise and drawing in the audience for if we were to potentially make more pieces based upon these characters.

However, there are some things that I feel we could have done better. 

For example, I feel that I could have directed a wider variation of shots; some extreme close ups, high angle shots and a tracking shot I feel could have made the piece more visually interesting.

We could have also planned earlier on in production regarding the location of the piece; while the Harlow College Photography studio we used was effective, if we had looked at location earlier, we could have gotten a location to shoot at with less in the background and some brick walls, which I feel would have added a much more tense and gritty atmosphere to the piece.