Evaluation Of Preliminary Task
Evaluating Video Production.
We had to ensure continuity during recording. We made sure that the lighting was the same, the mise-en-scene and the costume of characters. With the language of the film, we also had to use continuity with the way the actors brought out the dialogue - the accent, the subtext behind the words. Otherwise, if we had changed it, the continuity of the piece would have been lost, and the audience would've got confused and lost.
The filming mistakes we had to overcome, was that some shots were blurred. However the shot does come into focus when a character comes into the shot. We as a group all agreed that this effect was a good choice to keep, as it made the piece of film a stylized piece, experimenting with new ideas etc. Along with the blurred effects, we had to sort out the lighting continuity of each shot we took. The way we kept the lighting continuity was looking at the film we recorded before, and noted down how the light was positioned, the amount of light needed and what light effect we used before hand. Another problem we had was, maintaining a steady camera shot as we had to use a hand-held camera, which was a difficulty due to the fact that our shots had to be still, and not to make the filming look amateurish. The reason we didn't use a tripod is because of the type of shots we wanted. For example, we used a shot where the camera was on one character then twisted over the scene in a 180 degree angle to the other character.
Our genre which we aimed for was a 1930's film noir which I believe we achieved. I believe that the audience would be happy with the final edit and product of the film. How we achieved the 1930's noir style, we made sure our mise en scene was to the right period. We used simple props, such as, a ring binder and a box of matches. There was no modern technology involved in the scenes. The costume was in the style of the 1930's gangster/thriller. We made sure there were no bright colours which would've ruined the concept and illusion that this film was set during the 1930's. Along with the mise en scene and costume, the actors had to think about the accents of their characters during this time period. For the police inspector character, the actor was American/slight Italian accent, to represent Mafia characters of that era.
I believe that our filming was to a good standard, for the audience to be enticed to see what the film will be about. Draws the audience in and wanting to understand the background story. With the two lines of dialogue, the audience will not know what the story is. However the dialogue will capture the audience and make them want to understand what is actually happening throughout the film.
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