Practice Movie Session - Nathan Gallimore

the task my group was given was to match cut a brief that was given to us by the teacher. the brief was to have a man walk into a room and meet another character and we had to camera shots to make it thrilling.

during this practical i was quite pleased with the camera work i felt it suited the image we was looking for. there was a shot that could of been improved which was the high angle shot. it was hard to capture this shot accurately.

i think the editing went quite well with all the footage that we captured the only problem was my group forgot to follow the 5 second rule therefore editing was'nt as good as it could of been if we followed the rule. i think the film made sense, you could tell what was happening whilst watching the film, therefore i felt it made sense and so did other that had reviewed it.

i feel like i've learned alot about mise-en-scene, because there's things that the audience spots in the background and can relate it to a genre type or possibly can predict what could happen in the film before it happens.

my group manage to create a element of suspense. i think we created it by hiding nathan's face which was the character playing the man walking into the room. it created suspense because the audience will always be questioning who is that man because you cant see he's face.

my group forgot to follow the 5 second rule before and after each shot that we had taken.

i think we used conventions that you would find in other thrillers. why? because we used a package and a mystery man which is a perfect example of what other thrillers use.

feedback from the teacher and class was that it was a good film but the was a few mistake that the could spot and indicate straight away, and that was mainly the match cutting. other than that the said it was a good practice film.

on this practical overall i feel that my group did a fairly good job since this is the first film that either of us has ever recorded. so i feel there's plenty of time for improvements.