Prelim Film Evaluation

In our Prelim task, we had to look at the different uses of shots, such as the 180 degree shot, reverse shots and match cuts. Our task was to create a short storyboard out of these techniques. The participants were myself, Ibrahim and Sam. We decided to film a young boy attending a waiting room at the doctors with his skateboard, and having to be there with a relative, who wasn't the biggest fan of skateboards.

To begin with, we used a long shot to catch the young boy, who I was playing, limping towards the waiting room with his skateboard. We used a long shot for this to catch my movement well. Perhaps next time we could maybe change the length of the recording, as the long shot did mean we had to wait a little, but that could be done in future references.

The highlight of the Prelim, would have to be the door opening scene, it was very accurate and steady. We caught this with a close up shot, however, later on we went onto editing it extremely well so it looks real enough. This was just a glimpse of what our group was capable of as we've got more to come within the next few years.

At first, I wasn't very sure about story boarding, however, once the acting came into role, I found it extremely useful as it honestly gave me an insight on how it creates the visuals for a film. It helped us as a group to understand the usefulness of the storyboard and how effective it can be during the scenes.

We managed to use as much shots as possible in our Prelim, which gave us a chance to use each shot productively. The wide shot towards the end of the conversation between myself and Ibrahim, created a proportion of tension as we came to the end of a little misunderstanding.