Evaluation of the preliminary film

Evaluation of the preliminary film

There were many strength and weaknesses that have been involve din both production and editing of the preliminary film. The first point I’m going to talk about will be the filming. When it came to the filming we had a tripod, and a flip camera. The fact we had a tripod came as a strength to the overall filming as it mean we could take steady clear shots, as opposed to hot having a tripod and the filming being shaky and disorientated. However the main weakness with the actual filming side of things would the quality of the camera we were using. The camera was of an ok quality, however things such as the microphone on the camera weren’t of the best quality, which gave the film less of a professional feel.

The next point I’m going to talk about will be the editing of the film. The editing wasn’t of a very good standard and this was down to one of many factors. The first and probably most predominant reason for the lack of quality, would be that no member of the group I was working with had ever used final cut before, which meant it was new to all of us. This caused a lack in the overall quality as we were trying to learn the basic skills at the same time of trying to produce a professional looking film. However a strength to go with our editing would have been our ability to over ride parts of the film with a soundtrack. Not only did we incorporate a sound track, we also were able to make it so the sound fades louder and quieter in various parts of the film. Having the soundtrack helped us to produce a general misé en scene as it set the tone for the rest of the film.

Many more factors could have been strengths if we went further into detain on the actual planning process of the film. The main weakness with our planning would have been the fact that we didn’t check what rooms were free and when, so once we used one room on the first day of filming, we went back on the second day to realise it was being used for a different. This caused a problem, as the continuity of our film isn’t very good with the film jumping from one room to another while in the middle of talking. Also the continuity was a problem in the fact that the main actors were both wearing different items of clothing the second day as opposed to wearing the same, which would have caused some confusion and disorientation with the viewer. However one of the main strength with our planning is that we planned the shot types and speech, which meant that when it came to the filming we were able to act efficiently and get the film done at a fast rate.

Moving on from the physical aspect of making the films such as the filming and editing, there were also other factors the helped/ hindered the films outcome involving factors such as the requirement of working in a group. The biggest strength I found while working in a group would have been the fact that we could all have in input by each bringing different tips and ideas to light which meant we could get the film to a higher standard than each of us would have done individually. However similar to the strength, one of the problems encountered with working in a group would have been the difference in ideas. I think our group dealt with this issue fairly well and we were only delayed a couple of minutes by negotiating which idea to use, but this could have potentially set us back quite some time