Evaulation of video task 2

The outline of the task was to produce a video with a title of 'The phone call' we created a story from the title and produced a video to go along with it. The idea of our story was to show a conversation between the England football team manager and a team player, giving the player the news of making the squad. Due to the shots being in a certain order we didn't manage to film all aspects from our second character this therefore impacted on our editing and certain clips couldn't be included because of the order not being correct.

After watching the video a few times, you can see its not been very well edited however The 'Ability to hold a shot steady' can be marked as proficient, the reason for this is when you watch the video there isn't one shot that cuts people out unless its meant to and handheld shots aren't wobbly.

Our shooting matrial would have to be basic because although we managed to film a phone call we and edit it together we didn't finish all parts of the filming therefore it impacted on the length of the film and how much we could actually bring together.

Due to not all members of my group being in the shots didn't get edited properly and this means I can only give it a basic grade for the overall outcome of the video. I feel if every memeber of my group put effort into it and if we finished all shots we could have produced a proficient video. We need to work on timing more and the ways of editing, due to it being our first attempt we had great difficulty.

All in all the task we set out today was a good attempt but can be graded no more than a basic in my point of view, there's a huge room for improvement and hopefully you will see this in the next video produced.

Link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpaVHqrqGMw&feature=related

Evaluation of Video task

Due to my group not creating our planned video, I have chose to evaluate another groups work(Chels, Jess & Ben). I will be looking at the skills they use, what they actually did in the video, props used and suggestions to improve their work.

They created a video of the tour of the school and it was aimed at students leaving school and intrested in going to sixth form. The idea of the video was to give a tour of aspects of the school which portrayed the school in a positive light, you had to focus on shots, angles and movement, how steady you could hold a shot.

I felt the group i'm evaulating worked very well together and produced a successful first attempt, on the mark scheme I gave them for 'holding a shot steady' a proficient the reason for this was because I felt they held it very steady almost throughout the whole video. Small improvements could have been made, watching it back showed although they was very good at a holding it steady a tripod would have been more useful meaning holding the shot steady would be less to worry about. Not only does a tripod help to keep the camera steady it helps 'frame a shot appropriately' meaning it helps to frame the video and stops things from being cut out, although the group worked quite well on framing I can only give them a basic because on the odd occasion in the video they cut out half the persons face when they're talking.

The other thing we looked at was 'variety in of shots and distances' I will give them a proficient for this as I felt they used various angles such as low angles, two shots, tracking shots and they used swish pan. this is only a few examples of the types of shots they did, They could improve on them however they done a good job.

The task set was achieved to a good standard I think they attempted it and achieved the goal of producing a tour guide of the school, because of the approach they went for the informal/friendly look it draws people in more to think its a nice enviornment to be in and makes the audience feel at ease. The mise-en-scene they went for was good however they could have placed themselves better as the background noise level was overpowering at times, because I found this distracting I will have to give them a basic level.

Overall I think they achieved the task goal well and it turned out as a very good first attempt, you can see form watching it back the improvements that need to be made but all in all they done a good first attempt.