Task 12 - Reflection on Preliminary Task

 

Reflection on Preliminary

 

One of the aspects we noticed was different to the footage at Wilderness Woods as opposed to this task was the amount of editing time. This time around Frankie and I thought we needed to spend less time mending our errors and covering up mistakes of footage than without task at Wilderness Woods. This could have been for many reasons, however, we believe that as a group we have a better understanding as a pair than we did before, maybe due to more experience with filming. When we filmed at Wilderness Woods we felt as if we were trying all shots and frames for the first time, such as the jumping over the sty, and the POV of running down the mud path. With this knowledge and experience we found that we already had a rough idea which shots worked, and which shots were harder to pull off. This came in very useful as for a task with less time allocated to it our filming and ideas needed to be more effective and precise. We believe that as a group we succeeded in this as, despite the controversy of the actual story, the filming seemed much more efficient and productive.

There were still faults with our filming however, when trying to film an establishing long shot out of the first floor of the filming, we had trouble leaning the tripod against the window seal, this led to issues with the stability of the shot making the shots quality look less professional and as a result we abandoned this particular frame. Another issue we had with our planning perhaps was the length of our production. As Frankie and I are apparent ‘perfectionists’ we had to assure all shots were adequate before we could move on to the next frame. This was mainly because we wanted our filming to be perfect. The length of our production actually turned out ok, we initially anticipated we would spend much longer on recruiting suitable sound effects and editing, this was one of the main reasons we were worried about the length of our film, we worried that if our film was excessively longwinded we would have to spend way too much time on the editing and run out of time for the task. However, the film turned out to be little over two minutes so the timing was fine.

With the knowledge of shots which worked in perhaps, more ‘rural’ locations such as Wilderness Woods, we knew roughly which shots we were working with. In the end, we managed to execute some of our favourite frames nearly exactly how we wanted them to be portrayed. The framing shot of the hand clasping the railing and then the focus onto the face in the background was, in our opinion, one of our best shots. However, we had some issues with this. We wanted to portray the character as initially, irreverent and regressive, as a result the representation of wearing multiple rings sprang to mind. Due to the use of the 180degrees rule I had to swap the ring from my right hand to my left hand and use Frankie’s ones as well.