Preliminary Evaluation

Our preliminary task was to create a short clip that included a character opening a door, crossing the room and sitting down opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. In the clip, we had to include match on action, shot/reverse/shot and 180 degree rule. Our group's story was about a character demanding an unknown object from an accomplice.

There were several weaknesses our group came across .The main weakness, our group faced was not using our planned shot list carefully. As we did not use our shot list, our final clip did not include a shot/reverse/shot or the 180 degree rule and therefore, did not meet the criteria specified. Another weakness was that we did not anticipate the effect that the dim lighting had on the quality of clip and due to the low quality of our clip, we made a last minute decision to change the whole clip into black and white whilst making the scene seem like a memory. This made the characters to be quite unclear and difficult to precisely make out facial expressions. Our decision to have the clip in black and white did not leave us a lot of time to edit the music carefully and therefore, the background music was loud and at times, louder than the actual dialogue.

Although our group faced many weaknesses, we also had many strengths. One of our strengths was that we were able to create a mysterious atmosphere using dim lighting and parallel music.The music was also climactic which created anticipation and tension towards the end of the clip. We were also able to create enigma codes as we did not show the contents of the box but showed a light coming out from it making the audience curious as to what was in the box. Although we did not initially plan to have to clip shot in black and white, the black and white added to the mystery and suspense into the scene.