Q6. Evaluate your contribution to the group's work

My main part was being the director of photography, i only had a small part in the acting right at the start which made me the perfect candidate to be the photographer, however i wouldn't say i had a big part in the editing mainly due to my absence, (i'd say Charlie made the most effort in that aspect). I was always open to ideas, as i didn't really mind what our story was about as long as it met the brief. From this preliminary task I've mainly gained knowledge on how to use the cameras, but also how to time manage and plan within the group to enable us to finish with spare time to make any last minute changes we might have needed to do.

Q5. Feedback from others

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Q4. How well did you meet the brief?

During the task I think we forgot about the brief a little bit as we didn't manage to master it (or come close in some aspects), probably due to us focusing on other aspects of filming but i think our biggest let down was the 180 degree rule, I think we need to focus more on the brief in the main task, however we made a pretty good attempt with match on action and shot reverse shot, so we managed 2/3 which wasnt bad for a first attempt!

Q3. Areas for development

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Q2. Areas of success

Q2. Areas of success

What have you done well?

Finished version- In my opinion our finished version turned out relatively well considering for all 3 of us it was our first time actually making a short clip using editing and filming to the extent we did. We managed to make the continuity of our clips all link together with sound, using Adobe Premiere Pro CC making our first attempt quite successful, but also letting us see which areas we needed to improve! Also teaching us the different aspects available for use of the editing software, enabling us to gain a wider understanding of the software for our main task.

Planning stage- For out preliminary in our opinion we believed that the actual filming and editing were the most important parts, hence why we just chose a quick and easy story line giving us more time to focus on the parts that actually made the clip look better.

Time management- I think our group met the deadline rather well, we managed to finish filming within a few days, allowing the most time for the editing side of things, this was important as we could then watch the clip and see what needed to be improved and what was going well. We finished the task before the deadline which allowed us to spend the final session looking for areas of improvement for out final task.

Group dynamic- The dynamic of our group was positive, probably because we are all friends so didn't have problem with each other commenting their opinions on changes being made. This was good as it meant everyone contributed to the editing. Overall Charlie ended up doing most of the editing due to mine and Annabel's absence, however when we were back she had no problem sharing the roles again. During the filming side of things we all had the most equal roles,and we all knew who was doing what which worked well with timing.

Effective shots or useful editing software- For our preliminary task we used Adobe Premiere Pro CC which was useful as  we got to grips with the main features of the software in order to give us a head start with our main task! The task also expected us to be able to use 180 degree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot, we managed to get all 3 of them in (even if they weren't 100% perfect due to it being our first attempt).

Q1. What have you learned during the making of your preliminary task?

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