What went well - I think that I encapsulated the general idea of what a Big Issue cover looks like through the use of common conventions seen on the covers. Furthermore, all the text is clear and I decided it would be a special edition, so the entire cover is thematic to the Halloween style. The focal image makes it clear that the main article is a violinist, while the bobblehead of Trump and the copy gives further detail about other content in the magazine.
Even better if - I think I could have made the focal image bigger, as there seems to be lots of empty space on the cover and a lack of detail on the face. If I were to remake the cover, I think I would also remove the 'Pop to the top' slogan, because it feels like I have two slogans and I would rather have one big slogan.
1. What was your role in the task and what did you actually do? For our task, I played the roles of actor, script writer and producer. I was also the director, camera op and sound op, giving ideas to improve shots while filming and directing the shots that I was absent in. We all took part in writing the script and producing the video, each giving ideas that could be used and highlighting certain problems that could come up. I acted as the dad in our production, who tried to give his son high praise during a parents evening, despite his son's ignorant attitude. Afterwards, I also helped edit in pairs with another member of the group, Maisy. I helped trim the video and made sure that the video seemed smooth in terms of pace and continuity. 2. As a group, what factors did you take into account when planning, filming and editing?
During planning, we made sure that our idea was practical and that all our shots could be done within the time limit. We also made sure to have a basic storyboard and a script to follow during the shoot day. While filming, we made sure to include multiple takes of the master in case there was something we didn't like. We were constantly aware of keeping continuity so we tried not to break the 180 rule and made sure to record actions before the shot so we could get a match on action during editing. When we were editing, we had to make sure that our production maintained continuity and pace throughout. We were also trying to make the editing quick by renaming all the shots so we could find them easily and doing a rough edit first. 3. How successful was your sequence? Did you fulfil the demands of the brief? Did you manage to demonstrate match-on-action, shot-reverse-shot, and 180-degree rule? Did you achieve continuity overall?(WWW/EBI) Our brief told us to film a short scene where a character opens a door, enters and sits down opposite another character, with whom they will exchange several lines of dialogue. Our video has fulfilled the brief because it contains everything entailed in the brief and makes sure that we don't have any audio-visuals and music, which is also mentioned in the brief. We made sure that all our transitions had match-on-action and stayed on the same side of the conversation to follow the 180 rule. In addition, we made sure to get a master shot and two closer shots of the conversation to allow us to do shot-reverse-shot. However, there were parts of the video were continuity was still broken, such as slight hand movement between each shot and lighting changes. 4. What have you learnt from completing this task? How might this learning impact on future video production work?
From this task, I have learnt many tips about maintaining continuity such as using master shots to cut to and making sure the transitions between each shot match on the action. In addition, I have learnt the importance of a clapperboard, as we forgot to use it at the beginning of our shoot, making the renaming process very hard. I think that for future video production work, I should be more thorough with planning, such as creating a shot list and using a clapperboard, as it speeds up the process later on and allows everyone with different roles to understand what is going on. Another imperfection in our video was the improper framing, which meant shots like the "5 Greats" shot went out of frame. Therefore, I will make sure in the future that every shot has everything needed within frame and slightly zoomed out, so that any post-editing could be done after.
