preliminary exercise - final clip and evaluation.

EVALUATION

I thought my groups final piece was effective for the time we was given and the storyline was rather clear. Once filming we realised it wasn't as easy as we thought, so we set up two cameras and chose the most effective shot, this helped us a lot because we would get more done and film things on one camera we may have missed out on the other.

We planned our PE thoroughly, making post it notes, A3 posters and scripts for one another which we could learn ready for filming. We would film in our free periods and sometimes in dinners just so we could get it done quicker, most of our editing was done after school as it took us a long time to get our heads around the software.

The shots and angles we were provided with helped guide us through our filming because we knew what we had to include and to make sure we didn't miss any out we planned all the shots on our post-it notes before we started filming. 

The location was pretty simple, we needed a classroom where the first character would find the note and then a library where she would meet the 'mystery boy', so we thought we would use the new resource centre in our sixth form which has just been built and use it as a meeting place.
We didn't really have a set costume for our task as it was filmed as if the people were at school already so we just kept our everyday clothes on.

I think what we need to learn from filming this exercise would be to give ourselves more time to plan out the way we would film and what our storyline would be and that we didn't rush into things as we had to restart it a couple of times before we got the final piece. However, all in all I think we completed this to our highest standard and was very effective for our first time.