Media – video evaluation

Our initial idea was to make a short video of a doctor giving an aggrieved parent bad news about their child. We chose this as it would be short but a lot of emotion could be shown through it and it could involve a variety of camera angles such as over the shoulder and editing techniques such as match on action.

Our group was split up successfully as the pre shooting work was done efficiently all group members, during the shooting of the video every group member had a specific role (two actors, two people on the cameras and a director) and while editing we worked as a group.

If we worked together again I think I would give each person different roles at each section to see if we could work even better and get an even better end result.

The production paper work I found most useful was the treatment as it gave me a general over view of what we were trying to shoot and what we were trying to achieve. I think the production paper work that needed further development was the storyboard as it didn’t illustrate as clearly as it could have done what shots we wanted to include and how the story line should be shot.

Our idea of having two people talking over a table didn’t change however the subject matter did change from it being about an organised assassination to a doctor giving bad news to a distressed parent. We changed to this as we thought we could get more emotion portrayed through the camera therefore making the video more interesting. Also we were shooting in a well light white walled room which didn’t seem like the sort of place that an organised assassination talk would take place. However the set did look similar to what a doctor’s surgery would look like.

Our technical skills of the production were good overall. We shot with the correct light balance, we used tri pods to keep the cameras still, we followed the 180 degree rule, and we used a variety of camera angles such as over the shoulder a tracking shot and a close up. We edited using the match on action technique on the opening of a door. Next time both camera operators should account for the overlap that the camera shoots.