Progression from the Preliminary Task to my Final Product.AS Media - Evaluation

I think my camera work, mise-en-scene and sound as improved vastly between my preliminary task and my final product. Although I used some similar shots, I improved on camera movement and the angles of my shots. One shot that I used within both pieces is something I called ‘The Bum Shot’.

I liked these shots because they added intercuts between long shots, making them seem less slow, but also not taking away from the story with something random. I re-used this within my final product because it added range to the shots and angles that I was using.

During both films I used a pan to capture the protagonist walking across an area. You can see a major difference in quality between the preliminary and the final product. During the preliminary task, the pan wasn’t as smooth as it could have been and also the sound of the lens zooming was very noticeable and distracting during the final preliminary film. Within my final product my pan was much smoother due to no zooming in or out. I was also able to eliminate the worry of hearing the camera moving due to the fact that I was removing the sound from the footage anyway. It was also much easier to keep the protagonist within the whole frame during the pan on my final product.

The mise-en-scene within my final product was much more improved from my preliminary task. I used a lot more props and locations which made the mise-en-scene much more effective. Within my preliminary task we used one room and a corridor. The room was a large hall that didn’t really tell you much as to what it was. This was different to my final product where I used locations such as a common and an office. The common was fitting to the piece because it made he girl seem isolated. The common helped to present this feeling to the audience. The office was used within the detective scenes where props such as a laptop, a mug and a lamp were used to create an image of an office for the audience. I used low lighting and shadows within these shots so that there was nothing much in the background to draw the audiences attention away from what was actually going on, and therefore kept he mise-en-scene strong. I also had my actor dressed in smart clothing that naturally you would see a detective wearing. The mise-en-scene was minimal but effective.