Preliminary Exercise: Evaluation

Preliminary Exercise: Evaluation

Camerawork

The camerawork is generally quite good, with a couple of questionable moments.

The main negative point on the camerawork is that the rule of thirds has occasionally been forgotten, making some shots look off.

 Good aspects to the camera work would be that the over the shoulder shots, and POV shots are well framed, and the POV shots do a particularly good job of following the subject, such as Max's hand.

Sound

The sound is fairly good in the production, though having to film during lunch hour meant that there were allot of people in the background making noises that, when edited, ever so slightly diddled the continuity; however I don't believe that this is particularly noticeable.

The most obvious negative part of the sound would be when the camera mysteriously "forgot" to record sound when recording the POV shot of Max opening the door, this was not detected until it was too late, and even more curiously happened in all three takes that we did of this shot meaning that there was no sound to be salvaged.

A good side to the sound however is that all of the dialogue is clear and audible, and it fits with what is on screen.

Editing

Editing on this exercise was generally good, but due to file conversion taking a longer amount of time than expected, shows some signs of being rushed. This is most evident when Max opens the door, twice, which breaks continuity and is quite irritating. This amateur mistake, made by myself, was noticed before exporting but too late however.

All things considered I would say this exercise has demonstrated at least a high beginner or low intermediate level of skills, and for a first task has went very well.