Friday, 15 October 2010

The Prisoner Final Cut

This is out video of "The Prisoner", made by our group consisting of Craig Mullen, James Corker and Peter Chive's. At the beginning things were going quite well we got the shots we thought we wanted quickly shot and used a lot of different camera movements and upon reflection we were reasonably happy with the shots we took. However as we began to upload our shots onto the computers we definitely began to notice that there were many errors in shooting, there were parts that just cut off and left Major continuity errors and other parts of which we would have one shot and then not have another to make it seem realistic the best example of this was when, we had a shot of a door opening then thinking we had a shot of it closing we began to upload the shot but then found out we had no shot of the door closing and so this created a massive continuty error for our project and resulted in us having to reconsider how we were going to show the scene on our movie. The best part of our movie in my opinion was the use of non diegetic sound when james is walking across the field the use of the music track "Hunter" has a eriee effect on the scene creating an ominous atmosphere accurate for the effect we wanted to achieve. However we even had problems with this in the way that we had to try to time it perfectly which was difficult. Also the use of our camera angles in the interrogation scene whereby the low angle appeared to make me look more inferior to james. Overall we did a good job in filming the shots getting the correct shots and using the correct camera angles but simple mistakes let us down next time we will definately create a checklist in order to ensure that we get all the shots we need and leave out any continuty errors.

1 comment:

  1. This is a very detailed evaluation, Craig - some useful analysis and a good sense of awareness. Well done. I very much like your opening shot - a shame the camera moves, since it's quite evocative. I see what you mean about the continuity (the hands between 0.35 and 0.37!). The framing of the two-shot is excellent, although you have some scope here to use a couple of close-ups, particularly for the pay-off lines. Some good ideas, though.

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