Preliminary Task Evaluation

For this task we decided to go with the idea of a police interrogation, and I think that idea worked well for this task because it ran well with the instructions of walking through a door, sitting down and having a few lines of conversation. I think the footage that we caught was good and not too difficult to edit but we did encounter some issues while filming.

The main problem we had with filming was the setting. There were not many available rooms that matched the set needed for this film, so eventually we had to settle with a printer room with a desk in it. In some shots this printer can be seen (see left). This presented a problem as the room was just a little bit too small and although we could do most of the filming relatively simply it meant that some of the shots included in the could not be filmed in the tight space. This also made it difficult to conform to the 180 degree rule as it quickly became very limited so we had to experiment with other shots we had not previously planned to use, such as this shot which we tried to make look like a CCTV camera (see below.) Another problem was there was a lot of background noise caught from corridors etc.

Overall I think this task went reasonably well, but if it was to re do the task I would possibly to try to find a bigger room as the size of the room was the cause of most of the problems that we faced on this task. Also possible trying to find a quiter room as there was quite a lot of background noise coming from corridors outside.