Analysis of the Preliminary Task

Our Preliminary task took about 2 weeks to film, we filmed all of it inside the school and took about 3 takes of each shot. I think we worked well in terms of working with the disruptions of working in the corridor and using a handheld camera for the first time, and we did plan effectively when making decisions about what the plot would be, where we would film and the different shots we were going to use. 


There are a few things we could have improved on however. During production, one of the rooms we needed was taken, so we had to use a different room that looked similar from the outside. We did do this, but because we filmed on two separate days we didn't have the "managing director" sign for the final scene. We didn't think about this when filming, which means that there was a lack of continuity editing in that respect. 


I think we did use a good range of shots, we didn't use some shot types, but this was because we didn't really have the opportunity to do so, for example extreme close ups or cutaway shots. We did use a range of close ups, establishing shots, mid shots and long shots. We did use a high angle shot when using the CCTV effect, and some of our shots were used to good effect as we were trying to be fairly secretive about the characters until there was a confrontation. 


The editing was not a particularly long job, simply because we only had a 100 second clip, and there were a few fairly large clips. Most of the time we didn't have any transitions, we just used straight cuts from one clip to another, but at the end we used a fade to black, and the credits were white text on a black background, and we did use a sound effect of an aeroplane taking off. We used this as it made a buzzing kind of sound, which is often seen in films when viewing a camera.