Evaluation - Question 7

The preliminary was extremely helpful as it allowed me and my group to become more familar with the camera before shooting scenes for our opening sequence. This allowed me, Cara and Harry to become more effective when we was shooting and also allowed us to become more effective with our groups timing as we already had practise of how to work the camera. For this task, we was required to make a few scenes of a conversation using the camera methods of panning and close up. This task was helpful as for our thriller sequence as I had the roll of the camera woman, and did frequently use these two types of cinematography throughout the sequence. For example; using panning to allow the audience to watch Brittany walk past the camera as she is walking home from school and using close up before Brittany is about to commit suicide and using the close up method to show the fear in her facial expressions.

The progression since this task to the present day has increased effectively as the particular task was to learn a few basic skills of the camera and learning how to do two camera shots: panning and close up. To this day, I now understand how to do all of the camera shots professionally. The preliminary task helped me to the full extent as my one of my responsibilities was how to work the camera which was in fact my main production role. Caras main role was the acting aspect throughout he sequence whilst Harry's main role was editing. As a group, we would all take part in every production role to show a team effort and would equally come up with a narrative of the product and the sound track. We would all have a say before changing something as the groups members would all get to hear everyone's ideas and pick the most effective. This shows that we worked well as a group and had effective listening skills if it benefitted our opening sequence.

If I could do anything differently; I would've suggested to learn more techniques of cinematography to help gain my knowledge. This would have then helped me when shooting the actual footage of the opening sequence to already be professional upon more camera techniques rather than learning on the spot without it not enabling to be at its most potential. Within this preliminary task, what we did differently was the communication aspect of our group. We were put into an unfamiliar scenario, where we would act and use some techniques of cinematography, which we have all never took part in. We had to work as a group to listen to each others opinions upon the situation the characters were about to be in whilst showing evidence of both panning and close up.