1. Prelim Task Evaluation
Zara Akhtar

2. 1. Who did you work with and how did you manage the
tasks between you? Explain how you organised your
time and schedules. What issues came up with time
management? What problems did you come up against?
How did you deal with these? What were your
strengths and weaknesses in this area? What would
you do differently next time?
Overview
 Clarrisa and Alex were who I worked with in my group
 Clarrisa was behind the camera where Alex and I were in front
of it
 Stayed behind after school to film our scene from 2:40 to 4:00
Problems
When editing we all never had a free lesson at the same time.
This resulted in using up more of our time during our media lesson
Strengths
Our management of organisation
Weaknesses
> Our time management

3. 2. How did you plan your sequence?
What process did you use?
Made a detailed storyboard which included
information such as:
Camera shots e.g. Close up, mid long shot
Camera movements e.g. Panning, tilts
Order of shots
After creating the story board we rehearsed it
and timed it so when we edited we knew how long
it needed to be.
This was good as it helped us when filming to
be fully organised.

4. 3. What technology did you use to complete the
task, and how did you use it? What did you learn about
using the cameras? Here you can also refer to the
discussions we have had in class recently about digital
cameras.
Camera used was the Cannon HD Cameras. Tri pod was also
used. This helped to:
Keep the camera was steady
To make camera movements like tilt and panning.
Things learnt
Count to five before filming – or first few seconds could
get cut off
Let camera focus before filming
For editing we used Adobe Premiere and we learned to
make sure we don't overlap clips otherwise it could get
deleted

5. 4. What factors did you have to take
into account when planning, shooting and
editing?
Planning
Considered the amount of space we would have
Had to be realistic in terms of how we were going to film
a certain shot.
Shooting
Considered the ‘rule of thirds’ so the screen was always
evenly filled out according to the different shots.
Considered continuity and how realistic it looks –
therefore we repeated everything every time we had a new
shot.
Editing
> Considered how long each shot should be as we did not
want to spend too much time on one specific shot

6. 5. How successful was your sequence?
Please identify what worked well, and
with hindsight, what would you
improve/do differently?
What was successful?
The continuity was successful
Our shots between takes worked well
It was timed nicely
Action and reaction was very clear
Improvements
It could have been improved if there was a close up of
the invitation when Alex was taking it out of his pocket
I would have had an close up of my face after Alex had
hugged me to show the reaction to the action

7. 6. What have you learnt from completing the
task? Discuss time management skills, group work
skills, organisational skills and technical skills of
production
Time Management skills
Have improved significantly as now working quicker
Still feel as though it could be improved in other ways like how
quickly we set up a camera and how long we spend filming/editing
one particular shot
Organisational and technical skills
Knew exactly what, where and how to do our task as had a well
laid out storyboard
Was confident with the editing as previously had a practice
session
Group work skills
All had and equal chance in editing
Were listening to each others feedback and ideas
Were making important decisions together

8. 7. Post production - What did you learn about the editing
process? How did you make decisions while editing? How did
you plan your time to complete the editing task? What were
your strengths and weaknesses in this area? What would you
do differently next time?
Editing – some useful tools that I learned how to use were the cut tool
and zooming in and out
Used trail and error when making decisions to see what worked and
what didn't work
Planned time – first two lessons we would edit beginning and middle and
last lesson would edit the end
Strengths
Knew exactly what scene to we were going to be editing on each day
so it did not waste time
Weakness
Spent too much time of certain shots which meant that we were
rushing to edit it towards the end
Next time?
Would not spend so much time watching scene back, would just carry
on until the end