Preliminary Task & Evaluation

In our short preliminary sequence we filmed a scene of a drug deal where two of the characters that were "doing business" ended up getting caught by two unknown, suspicious looking people who then order an assassin to kill the drug dealer and the drug buyer.

In our short sequence we included some continuity at the start because we as group thought that we could use it there well as the two main characters were about to meet to perform the drug deal. The video started with a match on action when the two main characters came to meet. When the operation was taking place we did not break the 180 degree rule and we decided to make sure that we kept this in place by filming close to a wall so that we had a faint guideline. We also used a shot-reverse shot to show that the characters were having a discussion before they moved onto the actual drug deal. Straight after the drug deal was completed there is an eye-line match between the drug buyer and one of the unknowns. We thought that it this would've been the best place to put it because it gives that effect of uncertainty to the audience because they don't know what is going to happen next. 

Even though we thought that our short preliminary task was good there are some improvements that we could've made and they were mostly with the sound and editing. On this exercise we did not have a boom so therefore we were unable to film with any decent sort of sound. The sound effects that we did add into the sequence was satisfactory, however I think that we could've improved it by searching longer for the correct suitable music to go with the scene.

The editing was adequate in a way that the story we were trying to deliver was not obscure, but we could've improved it if we were all working on it at the same time and had all come to an agreement. In the scene where Azimul (the assassin) is about to kill the people doing the drug deal we should've shortened it because you can see where he stops walking and is slightly in the shot.