Preliminary Task Questions

Q1: My group consisted of three people, they were Henri Yueksel, Ahmed Mohammad and myself (Sultan Mackinnon). In our preliminary task we each had a main role that we took, for this task Henri took the role as being the head cinematographer. Ahmed and myself were the actors for this preliminary task but as a group we helped each other and gave advise of what kind of shots we should have in the appropriate time. Our preliminary task video consisted shots such as high/low angles, shot reverse shot, point of view and close ups on the face. When there were shots of only myself we always had two or three cameras in different positions, this made it easier to take shots of different angles at that moment.I enjoyed making this video because no one argued in the group and we all got along well with each other and obviously communication is the key to successful in this matter.

Q2: When we took shots of different angles we always had three or two cameras but we forgot about the 180 degree rule, this had slowed our process of editing and taking shots because what we found out half way through our task is that we broke these rules so therefore we had to re-shoot. In our process of filming we did not take enough shots and camera angles so this also slowed us down because we had to re-shoot some in some of the areas. At one point we were so concentrated on finishing our preliminary task that we forgot there were tripods at the end of our filming, this had made us delete a large amount of footage that we took and take new ones to finish our task.

Q3: If I could re-make our preliminary task the areas that I would concentrate on are lighting and maybe acting (even tho you don't get marked for acting). The reason why I pointed out lighting is because we took all the footage in one day, but when we took the footage there were parts were the lighting were dark and some are were they were light, this made our task unprofessional and tacky. Even tho you don't get marked for acting I believe that we could have projected our voices louder and clearer.

Q4: When I used Adobe at first I found it confusing, the computers at that time were slow and this made our job much harder and more frustrating, but as we kept on working we found the editing program much simpler. Henri had started editing first then it was followed by Ahmed and then me. Ahmed and Henri were already familiar with the program so they had very clearly explained it to me.

Written by Sultan Mackinnon