Evaluation of Preliminary Task

For our prelim video we decided to do a Comedy/Thriller clip because we felt we all had some good ideas as well as personal skill we thought would be useful when filming it. Throughout our clip we decided to mainly use a ere and tension filled music track as it would help to show the viewer that the characters are up to no good. At the start of our video we showed our protagonist walking down the stairs to show his appearance and give the viewers a idea of who he is.

We start off in a mid shot showing the protagonist walk down the stair as it switched to our match on action scene we used a close up on his arm to show his reaching in and grabbing the door Handel. I feel this was a good scene as with the music it made the character seem tense and if we were to redo this section I would have preferred to have a lower angle shot as it would be more effective at disorienting the viewer.

The next scene we filmed is a lead up to the location of the next few scenes, in this scene we had our protagonist walking up and over the camera so we could show a shot reverse shot. To improve this shot I would have preferred a lower key of lighting to keep the drama.

As the protagonist sits the scene turns to a two shot so both characters are in even show, then it switches to a sequence of over the shoulder shots as the dialogue is exchanged, this scene to me was as a bit plain and would have been better with a larger range of shots. 

As the two characters finish their game the second character gets up and walks off frame leaving the protagonist crying in his seat, to me this scene went well and i would improve very little as I liked how the contrast in the characters emotions changed from both being calm to polar opposites.

the final sequence contained the two characters leaving the room in opposite directions with opposite emotions, I would have preferred to switch the scene and freeze on the jump from the secondary character.