Preliminary Exercise Video and Evaluation

We were told to create a video using all the things we have learnt so far. We completed two other tasks presented to us in hope that we will learn how to effectively manipulate the sound and camera techniques. We were then told to evaluate those videos and figure out what were the mistakes that we made and how we can improve them or what precautions can we take so that our final piece is flawless.

For the other two videos the group I was in consisted of me, Jake, Afsana, Ryan, Manjit and Sirhan. However, I believe we did not work well as a group and the result would not have been as I envisioned it to be. Therefore me and Jake decided to work on the preliminary task by ourself as we have similar visions and work ethics which means the final result will be the way we both wanted it to be.

We spent a over an hour preparing the storyboard and discussing the different camera angles we can include, what would match the story well and preserve the ideas in our minds conveying our point across to the viewers. Once we settled on a short story line, we went out to film what we came up with and recorded each shot from more than one perspective so that when it comes to editing we have lots of material to choose from. Jake was the one doing the filming while I was in charge of the editing. During the editing we have talked about the different ways we could improve the way we organise everything in the final piece. As Jake was recording he made sure to keep the recording baggy, what I mean by this is that he started recording and waited a few seconds before telling me to start acting. This makes it easy to edit later as it ensures that none of the valuable material gets cut off during recording.