Preliminary Task- Speed Dating

The clip above was my final cut of Speed dating. My preliminary task (Speed dating) was all about filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character. Then both characters will exchange a couple of lines of dialogue and the scene will end there. In this filming and editing task I had to demonstrate the three following things:  

• Match on action

• Shot/reverse shot

• The 180-degree rule

During my research and before I started filming, I decided to research online on what actually match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule meant. In the course of my research I found these three following images (above) showing what each of them meant visibly. By looking at these images it made me understand what the task brief was asking for pacifically.

However while filming Speed Dating I focused on getting all camera angles right and working along side the brief. Filming each scene was great fun, I had to think about camera angles, background and dialogue; also I tried to make each scene better then the last scene and by making sure it was kept it related to the topic I had chosen, which was speed dating. When Filming I only used a camera, natural light and switch lights. Once I had finished filming Speed Dating, I started editing and placing the three requirements and camera angles together into the order they fit in the film. Then after watching my film a few time I filled out a self assessment sheet (below) and judged the work I had created; out of 70 on my self assessment sheet I gave make creation 35. This was because it was not up to my full expectations, some of the elements that were requested that I had to put in the film were either not correct or had a wrong timing to it. Also in some scenes you could see the camera had moved or was moving at the time and the result of that was a negative visual scene. On the other hand the match on action was not very good as it was timed out of place, but the shot/reverse shot was excellent, as it fitted in with timing correctly and the 180-degree rule's input was not bad either.

Overall to improve on this production, I have decided to redo the scene that will contain match on action and will be working towards a higher quality result for match on action. I will also be looking at the lighting and will be using a tripod in this production this time, as I did not use in this media product I have made, so during my editing I had noticed some complications. By using a tripod it will neaten up the scene's and will look higher quality. However I have noticed that my backgrounds were the same in this media product, so I have decided to change the backgrounds is well and may be make them more colourful. Nevertheless, when redoing this entire media product, I will film the whole screen from one character of view and then change to the other and then edit it, as while editing it, it will be a lot easier and  I will be able to make it similar or the same to what the brief requires.

This is my self-assessment sheet.