After re-watching our preliminary task, “The pickup”, the
first thing I noticed was the quality of the audio. You can barely hear a word
that is said! We addressed this in our main task by changing the equipment we
used. The camera we used in our preliminary task was borrowed from the school
and was not as good as the equipment my partner Linden had at home which
prompted us to use these for our second filming session. This was a problem we
knew we had to address In our second production and therefore we put a lot of
thought into our camera positioning and the environments we filmed in. We knew
that with the second production being filmed out doors that external factors
such as weather and wind would need very comprehensive planning and attention.
We decided we needed to be ready every night in case we had the optimum
conditions for our filming that night as we knew we would not have many nights
like that within the time before the deadline.
The second thing I made sure to thoroughly think through was
the proxemics of our characters. In “The Pickup” we see lots of characters
effectively showing relationships through the body language and stage
positions. In our Preliminary task all the proxemics were done completely by
accident as we had not covered the term in class and none of us had never heard
of the word. However, covering the term before the production of our task
helped us in a great deal as it allowed us to show relationships again but this
time on purpose. During our opening scene Jamie and Linden are not shown in the
same frame as each other but are instead shown through the use of parallel
editing. Parallel editing allowed us to show the action of both of our
characters whilst not showing them in the same frames which is purposely done
to show a fragmented relationship between the two boys. The use of a flashback
of the two lads together is used to show the separating of the boys as our film
shows the story that leads to Linden ending his life. In the start of the
narrative, the lads are never shown in a frame without each other which is used
to illustrate an inseparable bond between these best friends and then end they
are not shown in the same shows the separation of the of this bond and the
power this mysterious black mailer has had on the bond.
The next thing we learned about from throughout the year
between our preliminary task and our main task is the importance of
preparation. Our preliminary task was rushed and done in an hour not long after
the task was set, this left us with no time to think about our task or what we
were trying to achieve. This is shown through the terrible shot reverse shot
that was thrown in during post production as we realised that we had not
included it and it was part of our task. With planning that shot could have
been used much more usefully and help our story. I believe this mistake did
help us with the production of our main task as it showed us the importance of
planning, we did shooting schedules, which were very rough as we were at the
mercy of mother nature, story boards, character profiles and other key bits of
planning to ensure our product went as smoothly as we wished our preliminary
task had gone.
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