DESCRIPTION: Keep the description of WHAT you did and decisions made to a minimum. A brief summary of your filming day or a brief description of your discussion is fine.
ANALYSIS: this is really important. You must say WHY you made the decisions you did and filmed what you chose to do.
- The close up shot was useful at this point because the viewer could see the emotion on the hero's face as he watched the antagonist drag away his kidnap victim. There was shock and anger clearly evident which should allow the audience/viewer to realise what he was feeling and set up the fact that he would investigate the disappearance.
REFLECTION: discuss briefly whether you feel you made the right decisions or not.
EVALUATION: the key point is whether your shot and editing choices have worked or not. If they have worked, say why and what effect they created. If they haven't worked, say what you would do next time to improve them.
- The close up shot worked really well because the audience knew immediately that the police man had a vested interest in saving the victim and that foreshadowed the direction of the film's narrative. However, the over the shoulder shot that followed was clumsy and should have been a point of view shot. The viewer needed to realise what the protagonist was seeing. Next time I would use a ...
Make sure that you include all of these areas in your blogs about your prelim task, especially the analysis and evaluation as that is where the marks lie.
Mrs Harris
