Preliminary Task evaluation

The task:
For this preliminary production we were given  a task to come up with a 30 second clip of there being a dialogue as well as someone walking through a door. We had to include the 180 degree rule, the match on action shot and the shot/reverse/shot rule. Me and my group set the scene in a bedroom where the character wakes up from her sleep when she hears the alarm go off and walks downstairs to have breakfast with her 'imaginary' sister.

Narrative:
Our narrative is about a girl who thought her sister was still alive when in fact she was not. Towards the end of the clip, there is a scene showing the protagonist talking to someone, when there is actually no one there, however as the camera carries on panning the conversation, we see someone sitting in the chair opposite her when there wasn't, which tells us she is imagining her sister being there.

Being in a group meant that each of us had to do certain tasks to help the task come together. I was with rabia and izzah and we all had ideas and combined them together. This allowed our preminary task to be the best as the class did say ours was amazing. Moreover, there were many shots which made the task look very real and intrigued the audience into it alot.

WWW: Our clip included many of the camera techniques such as a pan, shot-reverse-shot, 180 degree rule and match on action. We included enigma codes as well as maintaining continuity. We used many shots such as close ups, extreme close-ups, medium shots and long shots in order to identify and suture the roles from the narrative as well as seeing the facial expressions portrayed on the characters face. 

 EBI:

We needed to make the dialogue scene a bit better. By this i mean that you could not hear the sound of the characters speaking clearly and so it made it quite difficult for the audience to hear the characters speaking. Also, during this scene, the microphone had turned off and so you couldnt hear anything and so we had to do a voiceover which was quite risky to do as it could have not fitted the clip however, this turned out to be extremely good as it flowed throughout.

I think we could of made better use of the ‘lighting’ aspect of CLAMPS, but the real life lighting and everyday life shots added a sense of realism to it. We wanted to make the actor aspect of clamps and makeup is very natural- so she is in her pyjamas wearing no make-up. The genre was psychological thriller, and although there was a short range of instrumental sounds available on iTunes I think it suited well.