Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, What have you learnt in the progression

from it to the final product?

What did we learn in our preliminary task?

• Action match• Pan across the room• 180 degree rule• Mise-en-scene• Shot/reverse shot

How did we incorporate these technical aspects in our main production?

Action match

• It was stated in the brief to our preliminary task that we must include an action match shot. For this set example we filmed an action match of one of our characters walking through a door.

• In our main production we also did the same thing at the stage when the children are running out of the door to play outside the camera pans to show the direction in which the children are running and as a result cuts to show them running out the door on the opposite side.

Pan

• We incorporated this camera movement fairy frequently within our production.

• Looking back now we have seen how often this pan is included we have thought of ways in which we could swap the occasional pan for an alternative movement.

• The pan of the ball rolling across the road could have alternatively been; a track in to follow behind the ball as it crosses the road or ; a track right to follow the ball sideways on its journey across the road.

Mise-en-scene• In our final preliminary we corrected previous errors

of; unsuitable characters; unsuitable costumes; unsuitable location.

• In our production task we chose more fitting characters; ie. Correctly aged and presented, as well as there more suitable costumes, work/school attire.

• In Question 2 of our evaluation, we have already discussed how looking back now we believe we presented our ‘average family’ too high class, therefore our choice in location could be considered as wrong as well as the choice in private school uniform.

•Tommy’s costume could be considered unsuitable according to the challenging independent production company we are acting as, because of how stereotypical it is of a youth.•The less challenging representation targets the lower income bracket audience however still works well with our production as this clothing has been associated stereotypically with crime and misfortune therefore works with the genre.

•Both parents costumes were suitable for our production•We learnt from our preliminary that costumes must be fitting in order to be successful in a production

• The costumes for our child actors were suitable on the basis that we set our scene on a school morning therefore the children must be dressed and ready to go on their way to school.

• However they could also be classed as unsuitable as they don’t challenge stereotypes of the ‘average family’ being high class and wealthy enough to afford private school.

Tilt

• We did not include this in our preliminary task however it was a movement we learnt in the process of filming our production in one of our technical lessons

• We decided it was suitable to include in our production when Tommy appears to be leaning over Ellie when she picks up the ball.

Shot/reverse shot

• This was a technique discovered in our preliminary task which we didn’t include in our production as we didn’t include enough conversation in a suitable position within the shot to be able to use the technique without breaking the 180 degree rule

• Because we used most of the floor space available in our kitchen scene were most dialogue took place we couldn’t include a shot/reverse shot without breaking the compulsive 180 rule.