A2 Media - Evaluation of Task 1

Task: To produce a sequence showing shots, angles and movements
Task description: A guided walk around the school

When it came to this task, we had to do a guided tour around the school. The equipment we used was; a camera and a tripod. For the evaluation of this task I have to evaluate the following skills of the task; the ability to hold a shot steady, framing a shot appropriately, using a variety of shot distances as appropriate, shooting material appropriate to the task set and selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting. I had to evaluate these skills using either; minimal, basic, proficient or excellent. When I evaluated the skill to hold a shot steady, I rated i being basic. This is because In parts of the tour of the school it was a bit shakey. We did use a tripod for some of the filming but next time using experience from this we will probably use the tripod more than we did. I rated the skill; framing a shot appropriately as proficient because we zoomed in and panned a lot in the tour so it looked a bit more professional and obvious that we were trying to frame the shots properly. For the skill; use a variety of shot distances as appropriate I rated it as just being basic. This is because I think we only really used a lond distance shot so next time a few more shot distances would be recommended. For the skill; shoot material appropriate to the task set, I rated it as being excellent. This is because it was a guided tour of the school; we showed classrooms, the front view of the school, other areas wihin the school, talked to a teacher and talked to a student aswell. So we definetely shot the material appropriate to the task that was set. The last skill that I rated was; selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting. I rated this as just being basic because I think we could have thought more about the mise-en-scene, objects, lighting ect. I think it all is a bit basic because we didn't really put that much thought into this skill that we could have used. All together I feel like we could have put more thought into the overall task; using more shot distances, using a tripod and thinking more about the mise-ene-scene. We could achieve a better completed task if we thought of and did these things the next time we do a task.