Before starting our final project, we had to do a preliminary project to help us become familiar with the equipment we were using and clear up any issues we had not only with the cameras and shots but also with the software and the mac computers. We were all given a camera and a tripod to use and made a short scene with little dialogue but there had to be conflict of some sort. Ours was supposed to be a policewoman interviewing a suspect. We believe that since making this at the beginning of the year, we have learnt so much and are much more confident with the equipment and also have a lot more knowledge of shots and editing.
Below is our preliminary project and when watching it back after our finished project now, we can see such a difference and realised how much it has improved.
Camera Shots and Editing:
As you can see in the preliminary project many of the shots are quite shaky and the continuity didn't really fit and flow correctly while you watch it. For example there is a continuity error when the girl is walking into the room because we tried to switch shots during editing from a close-up to a mid-shot however it looked like the shot jumped and she wasn't in the same place. Afterwards we tried to pass it off as a jump cut but nobody was fooled!
However in our final project, we managed to edit our film so there was a jump cut that looked real and worked in the film unlike the one we claimed in our preliminary. The jump cut was one of the little girls throwing a stone in the pond.
Mise en Scene and Lighting:
One of the main differences between our preliminary and our final project, not only was the experience but also the resources we could use. This was because we were limited to stay in school and only had the day to think about it so we weren't prepared with props or costume. We decided to use the locker rooms because it was quiet, the lighting wasn't too bad and it was a plain environment. However it still didn't look very good but it was the best we could do, whereas we had a long time to plan our other project and we had the school hlidays to make it so we could film anywhere within reason and could take things with us like props and costume and actors for that matter.
The school locker rooms played their part wonderfully as a police interrogation room:
The final project was filmed in a fairground, a garage and a park with pond which was pre-planned down to the timing and days.
The locker room lighting was very annoying as it would change the colours whenever someone opened the door outside so we couldn't use a lot of the shots because they were different colours. But we learnt from this as when we shot the garage scene we used lamps to manipulate the lighting and could light the backs of objects from different places when we moved them.
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