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Evaluation of My Preliminary Task 2023



During this weekend I have filmed the short extract which will then be developed into a big short film which I'll release in the end. Though in my opinion, for preliminary task the job was done pretty well, I still think that there are some aspects to improve.

The first thing to which I payed attention to is the wind noise which interferes the audiences to immerse into the film. It happened because though I was given a mic, I found it useless because my extract didn't have any dialogues so as I thought, there was no point in regulating the sound, I was mistaken. When I start making my main task, I'll definitely use the mic in order to prevent such situations.

Another thing which needs an improvement is the moment in extract when the protagonist sees the group of boys walking and then smiles. The thing is that in my script they had to be just one girl with whom male protagonist falls in love. In addition there had to be the close ups so the audiences would know what's so special in this character. But the people who I wanted to be my actors were busy on the weekends, so I decided to rewrite the script especially for my preliminary task and because my actors were absent, the male protagonist was portrayed by me and the group of boys were just random people who didn't even know that I was filming. For my main task I'll definitely make sure that all the actors will be played by actors and more close ups will be involve in order to make viewers understand the point of these people.

In conclusion, I should also work on objects being in focus in the camera. There were some moments in my preliminary task when some images were a bit blurred so for my main task I have to regulate the quality of objects which may be useful for the story. Overall, I can say that it was a good start, of course there are many aspects top improve, but that's what the preliminary task is made for, to make an author understand which moments were weak and need some development.

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