Media Studies – Preliminary Task Evaluation
The scene begins with a teenage girl who receives a text message from her friend which tells her to meet them somewhere. She goes to that place and unexpectedly, someone else comes to meet her who isn’t her friend. The body language that both characters give off makes it easy for the audience to see that they do not know each other, and the second characters’ entrance is completely unexpected. Throughout the scene, the camera is kept steady when necessary, until the end of the film when the effect of it not being steady is purposely used. The unsteadiness of the camera is used so that it shows what the teenage girl is seeing through a point of view shot when she looks up from the steps where she fell. The backgrounds of most shots are quite basic; the scenes shot inside the sports hall changing rooms are full of bags and clothes, but the continuity is not broken throughout because we did not move any objects. We did this so it would look completely realistic and nothing would distract the audience from the main part of the film. In the film, we used a wide variety of different camera shots, such as; long shot, wide shot, shot/reverse shot, over the shoulder shot and pan. I think that using various different shots shows good camera skills and it is also good practice for when we come to do the main assignments. At the beginning, when Rebecca walks into the changing room, the camera doesn’t keep up with her; therefore it distracts the audience and takes their focus away from the main character. I think that it was our weakest point in the film because it looks unprofessional. At 1:25 minutes, there is quite a long pause, which may give the audience the idea that they are not in a conversation and that each person was filmed at different times. This will also divert the audience’s attention onto thinking about that, rather than watching the film.
During the short film, there are lots of diegetic sounds, such as; the p.e class on the field, footsteps, the bang when the briefcase hits the wood, the text message tone, the door slam, shouting, speech and heavy breathing. Diegetic sounds are sounds that we hear from within the ‘film world’. These sounds are important in the film because generally, they are the most realistic. Whereas non-diegetic sounds are sounds that are added into the ‘film world’. We only used one non-diegetic sound, which was the tense music at the end when Rebecca is running away. The tense music we used was parallel sound because it was a sound that went with what is going on in the clip. There are some sounds in the film that we attempted to cut out, e.g. the shouting from the p.e class on the field because we felt that it was not needed in our film. Although we tried, we could not seem to separate that sound from the whole background sound and we didn’t want it to be dead silent in the background.
The lighting was very consistent throughout the film as everything was clear and you could see everything perfectly. The costumes the characters wore were ordinary because we wanted the film to look realistic of a teenage, sixth form girl at school. The second character that enters part of the way through the film also has plain clothing which consisted of a black top, a black cardigan, a black skirt and black tights. This character was meant to give off a suspicious vibe as she held a shiny silver briefcase in her hand and made no noise until she repeatedly said the phrase ‘you cannot run from us’.
Although the film was very short, we had to do a lot of editing. This was because of laughing, mistakes and generally messing up. We wanted to have text during the film introducing the actresses and the titles. We tried to have the text overlaying the film and although we tried many different things, we could not seem to do so, so we ended up just putting it in between two different shots. At the beginning of the film, we filmed Rebecca walking round the corner (after she gets the text message), and we then switched to another shot of her walking up to the door. We noticed that you could see that she had stopped and then started walking again in the second shot; therefore we thought it looked unrealistic so we cut out about 1 second so that it looked like it followed on from the last shot. Throughout the film, we wanted every shot change to look as natural as possible and I think that with the achieved this with the editing that we did. As I mentioned earlier, there was quite a long pause at 1:25 minutes which could have been sorted out with editing by cutting some of the time, but I don’t think any of my group noticed before we had finished it.
During the short film, there are lots of diegetic sounds, such as; the p.e class on the field, footsteps, the bang when the briefcase hits the wood, the text message tone, the door slam, shouting, speech and heavy breathing. Diegetic sounds are sounds that we hear from within the ‘film world’. These sounds are important in the film because generally, they are the most realistic. Whereas non-diegetic sounds are sounds that are added into the ‘film world’. We only used one non-diegetic sound, which was the tense music at the end when Rebecca is running away. The tense music we used was parallel sound because it was a sound that went with what is going on in the clip. There are some sounds in the film that we attempted to cut out, e.g. the shouting from the p.e class on the field because we felt that it was not needed in our film. Although we tried, we could not seem to separate that sound from the whole background sound and we didn’t want it to be dead silent in the background.
The lighting was very consistent throughout the film as everything was clear and you could see everything perfectly. The costumes the characters wore were ordinary because we wanted the film to look realistic of a teenage, sixth form girl at school. The second character that enters part of the way through the film also has plain clothing which consisted of a black top, a black cardigan, a black skirt and black tights. This character was meant to give off a suspicious vibe as she held a shiny silver briefcase in her hand and made no noise until she repeatedly said the phrase ‘you cannot run from us’.
Although the film was very short, we had to do a lot of editing. This was because of laughing, mistakes and generally messing up. We wanted to have text during the film introducing the actresses and the titles. We tried to have the text overlaying the film and although we tried many different things, we could not seem to do so, so we ended up just putting it in between two different shots. At the beginning of the film, we filmed Rebecca walking round the corner (after she gets the text message), and we then switched to another shot of her walking up to the door. We noticed that you could see that she had stopped and then started walking again in the second shot; therefore we thought it looked unrealistic so we cut out about 1 second so that it looked like it followed on from the last shot. Throughout the film, we wanted every shot change to look as natural as possible and I think that with the achieved this with the editing that we did. As I mentioned earlier, there was quite a long pause at 1:25 minutes which could have been sorted out with editing by cutting some of the time, but I don’t think any of my group noticed before we had finished it.
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