Post 9: Evaluation

Our project “Vanilla" met the brief of a short film clip that shows someone walk into a room and sit down, whilst keeping good continuity and complying by the 180° rule. Although we did meet these criteria we also edited the film together with great precision and used both diegetic and non-diegetic sound

One shot that we used in our film clip was the match on action shot. This shot can be difficult to do due to continuity and timing. Over all I felt that we edited the clip together very well. I feel this way because on the shot where Harrison opens the door we managed to get the match on action to the very frame of him knocking on the door. This gave us a very good out come of a smooth shot that would have ended up looking jumpy if we were to do it wrong. Another reason why our match on action shot worked was because of the angles that we used whilst shooting it. For our first shot we used an establishing long shot that allowed the character to walk up to the door and knock, it then cut to a medium shot from the other side where Ron Gilbert invites him in and opens the door. One thing that we had to be careful of with this shot was that we needed to make sure that what I was wearing was the same each time. This included details such as creases in clothing and also the lighting on me. We got around any potential errors by shooting it back to back with the first establishing shot.

One thing that we used in our clip was a cross dissolve transition. The reason why we used this was to cover up some poor camera work. Our initial problem with the shot was that when it panned whilst following Harrison it was very shaky and didn't successfully centre him in the end of the shot. When we came to editing we managed to add a cross dissolve just before the moment of bad camera work. This meant that we missed it and also it gave the effect of passed time, an effect that we didn't initially want but after we put it in we preferred it and felt that it added more sophistication and variety to our piece.

One thing that we thought would be a problem was the diegetic sound of students and staff. We got around this problem by shooting during lessons whilst all of the students tend to be quiet and contained in their class rooms. Another precaution we took was that we filmed in a room that was away from any class rooms. This was because even if the students were being noisy and disruptive it wouldn't have effected us and our diegetic sound.