Group: Preliminary Filming Evaluation

In today's lesson, we filmed around school for our preliminary task. This was our first shoot working in this group, so we have learnt many valuable techniques and methods, as well as improving our filming skills. However, we did encounter some difficulties, which we hope to learn from as we continue the course.


How have you improved your filming skills?

• We hadn't used the school cameras much before, so the practice in setting up the tripods, framing shots, and general filming with the cameras was beneficial.

• We now have a greater appreciation of how to create continuity. It is vitally important to know exactly what your actors are doing in every segment of the scene, as you'll need to film the same part multiple times from different angles and distances, so any differences in non-verbal language will destroy verisimilitude.

What difficulties have you encountered?

• One of the main problems we encountered was with sound. Two locations were outside, and the other was in a corridor in the school. In the outside shots, the sound of wind and traffic was very obvious, and during the corridor scene the sound of lessons taking place could be heard in the background. It may have been better to mute the video, and use digagetic sound for things like footsteps and creaking doors.