Media Production 2 - Evaluation

In our Thursday lesson we were given the task of going out and filming ten shots , showing someone being followed. The learning objective for this task was to familiarize ourselves with the cut away shot and include it in our short movie were ever possible. We were only given 10 minutes planning time for this project, which created many problems. We did not have time to finish off our story board , find a location suitable for the film, and to create our shoot schedule. This time we had 4 people in our production team which again didn't make it any easier but each person was given a specific role, so no one had to double up at any point. So once we had the camera set up we went on location to film , which was the corridor. We only had a few shots to shoot here so we didn't want to spend too much time filming there. We would have been finished earlier if we didn't have to stop every 2 minutes to let people walk past. Again this was down to the lack preparation and the amount of time we was given to find an appropriate location. We then moved to the stairs were there was a continuous amount of noise playing in the background. We didn't think this was much of a problem because we could add a soundtrack to it. But to counter that idea the soundtrack could also stop the film looking as if it runs smoothly. Once we had finished filming we looked back at what we had done and were happy with the amount of cut-away shots we included. The shots went well with the other shots and we believe made the film more interesting.