Prelim & Evaluation

Prelim Evaulation

During this short course, I developed camera skills of match-cutting as well as using the camera at different angles such as close-up and wide angel shots for filming. As for editing, I did not know how to use Adobe Premier and making this short video realy helped me cover the basics skills of the program such as splitting the video, trimming it and adding music at the end which sadly we did not include at the end.

With the knowledge of the different camera angles that we learnt in class, I would say we were very successful at establishing and using the different camera angles in the video. For example, we showed the door opening before showing the girl in the red jacket approach her seat. We also applied the 180 degree angle rule when the two girls were talking to each other. In addition to this, we used shoulder shots for each girl during the conversation as shown in the video below.

Some good skills I was particulary good at was trimming the videos as well as cutting them to fit in the match-cuts. This made the conversation seem more realistic to the audience. However, one skill I was not good at was putting the different scenes in order which created some short cuts in the video. This is shown at 0.48 seconds in which there is a brief, interrupting cut when I stand up to get going. Therefore, this aspect did not work very well in our prelim video.

If I were to improve the video, some of the changes I would make is deleting the unecessary, short clips that make the video longer and unproffesional. I would also include a musical soundtrack at the end of the video as they are seperating paths for cinematic effects. Moreover, I would also make the ambient sound effects louder to make it seem realistic for the audience.



9. PRELIM. Neelam, Neena, Chifa, Anika, Aysha from 283goswell on Vimeo.