Preliminary Sequence

Preliminary Sequence - Evaluation

The first thing noticeable that went well was the delivery of the actual shots used. It seemed like an impossible task when Miss assigned this, saying we had to use a worm's eye view and concept edit among other variations of shots. Then boom, the ideas came flooding in. I instantly knew it would be easy to catch a worms eye view of either me walking down the stairs or entering the room to show my movement and a match-on-action. Rosie also had this idea of using my coffee brown eyes as a metaphor transition to an actual coffee in her hand, seeing that our sequence was some kinda break up/drug intervention (we really had no idea we just went with the flow). The eye concept edit unfortunately didn't work but I learned from it in that if not filmed well enough it really isn't possible to save anything through mere editing and elongating, don't be lazy... just re-film it. The same process taught me that it's best to film till you can't anymore. An example would be the cut of me walking down the corridor to walk into the door or just walk down the corridor in general. This was filmed on for a while so it was be easy to cut and transform into anything due to the flexibility this technique brought about.


We/I also learned that despite being media, acting can honestly make or break the sequence. Another detrimental thing is don't stop and start while filming, my God, having to scourer through 0.4 second - 1.2mins footage splayed all over the place made me wanna pull my hair out.

Overall, I learned that patience really is the key when it comes to filming. Also rough cuts and/or trying to cut corners aren't acceptable, if it doesn't look right to the producer's eye it certainly won't the audience's. When it comes to acting and variation of shots there is no space for complacency, if it isn't good enough re-film and don't be lazy carry on filming to the end.