Evaluation of the Preliminary Exercise

The camera work in our preliminary exercise was good overall as there was a mixture of shots including over the shoulder shots and extreme close ups which were mostly used correctly with the rule of thirds in order to make the film more professional. The camera was also held steadily with appropriate camera angles to keep the professional feel. Match on action was used which helped the flow of our film. However, the 180 degree rule was broken when filming the over the shoulder shots and we must remember to watch out for this in future filming.
The sound quality in our film isn't that clear. The beginning of the film was filmed in a busy corridor which meant unwanted sounds were picked up by the camera and in the future we must make sure that the sound from the surrounding environment is noticed before filming. The characters can be heard clearly though during the dialogue parts. We used hyperrealism in a scene where the door was closing but the shot had changed so didn't include the slamming of the door so we edited it in.
The match on action was edited well so that the movement was precisely shown without repeated action when viewing. The shots were cut to fit to the 30 second time limit however, the extreme close up of the eyes lasted on a bit too long which could have been cut shorter.
I feel my level of production skill in this task has been intermediate because I thought of ideas of what needed to be done to edit and film the shots, I just needed help from the other members in my group to work the software in order to carry out the ideas.