Preliminary Evaluation

Here is my preliminary and my evaluation


Preliminary Evaluation
The first step my group and I took in creating our prelim was to first produce a script. We were originally asked to practice this in class with a partner and because I had a different partner to my group we had to different scripts already planned. We had the option of and interview between a Detective and a murder suspect or two security guards on duty guarding top class information when they witness someone break in and attempt to apprehend the person. We had a discussion and at the end we voted as to which one we preferred. We all agreed that the security guards script was the one we wanted to do as we did not want to do a typical interrogation of a murder scene. However the script was incomplete so we were required to continue it but as we went on we decided that we wanted to change the script again and was therefore required to find time outside lesson to write the script. After we required to make a storyboard. As we fell a bit behind we were required to make this outside the lesson. When doing this we took into consideration many different ways of representation such as what angles to use etc.
Although we had a storyboard when it came to storyboard when it cam to storyboarding we began making changes as we had better ideas. Whilst shooting we ran in to a number of problems. One was because we were shooting in school when it came to end of lessons there were problems as kids kept getting into the shots. Also we forgot about continuity in our work(e.g. Luke had 2 different tops). We also did quite a lot of takes mainly because there were times when the actors got their lines wrong or laughed. When we finally came to editing the clapperboard we used in shooting was really good in helping identify what takes we needed. When editing we first chronologically edited making sure we used the correct shots for each. Once we had don this we then added titles and got the sorted out the transitions which we did not take long as we only had titles at the beginning and the end. Next we added the music and SFX. We decided to use action music for our chase scene. This is as it made it sound more dramatic and exciting. Another piece of music was a jazzy sort of music which we used when I entered the elevator music. This worked well for us as it was amusing as the two pieces of music contradicted. We used on SFX which was when me and ‘the bandit’ bumped into each other.
I my prelim we made a range of creative decisions. In our chase scene we had this action music which made the chase more interesting and to make it more amusing we had elevator for when I entered the elevator to contradict it. Also instead of to use the opening and closing of doors as our match on action we decided to do it when I’m pressing the button on the elevator. In addition we also used a rubix cube. This was to aid in showing that my character was not a ‘smart’ character as he was unable to complete it. It also showed he was a tad childish as he appears playful as he is playing with his rubix cube whilst on the job.