Assessment of first practical assignment

Assessment of first practical assignment

Through the first film that we made, we tried to tell the story of a girl who was looking for something, her cat to be more precise. We decided to choose this as our story line as the aim of the video was just to show a basic understanding of using different camera angles to use and to be able to understand what they mean, for example the high angle camera shot shows someone as being really weak and defenseless where as a low angle shot shows someone as being strong, mighty and powerful.

We did not include all of the camera shots and movements but however we did manage to use most of them. The main reason on why we did not use most of them is because we did not know where to put them in on the video.

At the beginning of the video we managed to use different types of ranged shots we done this just to introduce the film, we done this to a sort of intro to the protagonist of the story, we then decided to go into a Point of View shot and then into a pan shot  to give the viewers some sort of idea on what the protagonist is looking at so its  way to help the viewers see what is happening, we then cut it into a tilt shot to show how tall the protagonist  is and to also show how committed that she is, next we went into a tracking shot, this was to include a way into following the protagonist on their journey, next came an over the shoulder view because again, this was like us following her journey, then came the rolling shot in which the protagonist looks by a bush and the camera rolls to help get a better view of what the character is looking for, next we chose to do our best example of a crane shot despite the fact we didn't have a crane to do it, then we into another over the shoulder shot to carry on with the protagonist’s journey and finally we went into a low angle shot into a close up.

In some of the scenes the camera was held quite well, however in some scenes such as the tracking scenes and the crane scene the camera was not held properly as we did not have the right equipment for the job, we were only using a camera with a tripod so indeed it was relatively hard to keep some of the shots steady as all we had were are arms to keep the camera steady.

I think that some good elements of the film was some of the camera techniques and movements, for example the camera was held incredibly steady for most of the film despite the tracking shot as we didn't have the correct equipment with us, this also happened with the crane shot as we didn't have a crane to do it with us, we had to get the tallest person to stand up and hold the camera as high as they could.

Finally I would need to make improvements on certain aspects on the film for example on the shots mentioned above; I would have to make sure that the camera is held properly and much more steadily and on a shot at the beginning I would have to make sure that the camera stays on much more even ground so then it would not be at a slightly off angle.