My film analysis

I think that the story board and shot list we did helped us do everything correct because it told the camera man what shot to record, when to record and how to record it. If the story board and the shot list weren’t there, I don’t think things would have gone the way we wanted it. It was like a guide throughout the recording process. The thing I would do next time is that I would make the story and the shot list much more better, so that it is one easy to understand, and second that it makes whatever I am recording much more better.

The thing that went well in my video is that we followed the 180o shot rule, the shot went well. We saved loads of time while recording that shot, what we did was that we recorded the whole play through one side and then we did the other, and when we got in the edit suit, we cut the bits we needed and we put them in the orders. The advantage of doing this was that it saved time, there was also a disadvantage which is, sometimes the cutting and putting in order, might not fit on the right time. The other thing that went well in my film was the match on action shot we used it twice and I think both times it was perfect. We used a variety of shots, the best one was the zoom in on the hands. It was a zoom of two people shaking hands, which was a very good way of ending the scene.

I think the bit where we could improve on was the walk at the beginning, it was very slow and that made it look like as if I am doing it for the camera, it didn’t look very realistic. It was very slow, normally slow things build tension, but here I don’t think it did because people didn’t know what was happening and it was the first shot. If it was in the middle then it would have been ok because we would of know most of the story by then. That’s the shot which we could on improve on and make it better.

I think sound would was a problem as well, we could of added sound to the bits where There was dialogue. It would have looked much better. We just used diegetic Sound, which is the actual thing in the film. That’s another bit where we could improve on.

To make it look better we could have used a prop in it, which we didn’t do. That’s another area we could improve on. We thought it would look better if it was simple but sometimes simple always doesn’t look the best. We didn’t use many camera movements, which is a disadvantage because we should have used it, to make it look much better. I think we only used one which was where I stand near the door and the camera tilts up. By adding somewhere camera movements, the video would have looked much better and more professional, it would of also looked as if we know all the media concepts.