PRELIMINARY VIDEO

This is my preliminary video and there were many comments and feedback thrown at me when I first showed it to my peers and my teacher in school today. My all peers liked it as there was a little humor in it and a true salesman behavior shown. But when it came to the technical problems so my teacher told me many things from which I learnt a lot and will surely not repeat those mistakes in my final film. First fault was that my hand was shaking while I was shooting so I will be now using a tripod stand while shooting in future. Secondly there was a sudden and very fast zoom out which didn't looked professional. Thirdly the surrounding voice was very distracting which I knew already and that's why I kept the music at background to minimize this fault which was a trick appreciated by my peers and teacher. There was a shot of envelop on which it was written coupons was not natural and jumped in. Lastly the salesmen were looking in the camera which was a blunder but the other actor gave great shots and expressions. Apart from this my teacher also appreciated the way shots were dissolved, fade in and fade out of the music, the match on action and shot reverse shot. But 180 degree rule was not prominent in the video as both actors were standing which was also a big mistake I have to take care next time and I will surely try to improve and meet the requirements and expectations.

planning for preliminary video

In my last class of media studies my teacher told me about this preliminary task and yesterday as it was a holiday so I messaged two of my friends to come at my place at 8:30 PM for the shooting. I prepared a small script and decided all the shots and directions I had to give tonight. They arrived at 9:00 PM and I told them about the whole task they had to do and their roles along with some dialogues. We finally started shooting which was not an easy task for me as shooting with friends was the biggest issue I faced as they kept on laughing while shooting, they were not serious at all and one of them who became the salesman in my script was doing such thing first time so he kept on looking in the camera while shooting. But finally around 11:30 PM shooting finished and I transferred all the clips in my laptop and was done with my video with all editing and background sound on windows live movie maker by 12:00 AM.