Evaluation

In our preliminary task we were doing a comedy. A male character was going on a speed date. He was supposed to be meeting a woman he had talked to online, and the realise that his date was really a man when sitting down at the table with him. We did a low angle when our character entered the dating room and a 180 degree shot as the character went around the table ans sat down to face his date. We did this to highlight the fact that his date is also a male, and it is supposed to be funny because he thought it was a woman. While editing, we also realised that our 180 degree shot was not quite 180 degrees, we did not go all the way around the table as we meant to do. We also used match on action to create continuity. We also ended up changing the original dialogue and let the actors improvise, wich turned out a lot better than the original one.

We made a few mistakes while filming, but it turned out ok. Next time need to make sure that no group members are in the background and that we don’t cut the characters head off. I think all of us will be more aware of these things next time. While doing the editing we tried to fix some of these mistakes, which was quite hard, but it looks a little better now. The hardest thing is to fix these things without damaging the good scenes. We were not able to do anything about the part where one of the characters head is cut off, so we will just have to avoid doing that later.