Preliminary task evaluation.

Evaluation:

When filming you have things that went well but you'll also have things which don't go as smoothly!

Things that went well:

1. we found the perfect location (bedroom) with the right colours (red), which we were able to get the perfect angles in.
2. our filming went fairly smoothly, had to take each shot a few times because of laughter but that's only because they weren't professionals so we allowed it.
3. We knew how to edit so when it came to piecing our work together it was easy and done quickly.
4. the lighting in the bedroom was also perfect, it was lucky there was a light above their heads so we were able to spotlight them in the scene and turn the other lights off to give the impression it was night time.
5. IT WAS FUN!
6. it fits into our target audience's appeal 

Things that didn't go so smoothly: 

1.  our original actor for the husband arrived and when we briefed him of what he would be doing and that it would be going on our blogs he backed out. At this point we were really stuck as we knew we wouldn't be able to do it another night so we called another friend and over the phone briefed him of what he would be doing so we knew that we wouldn't get put into the same situation again. When he arrived he was a great actor - woo
2. our final shot didn't come out as we wanted it to, because of where the door was we had to switch the cameras angle to fit the wife walking through the door. When we came to edit it we saw that the shot from before didn't match with it and our actress had gone how so we had to rotate the clip and make do. The shot works but it just isn't perfect which is a shame. 

Planning for the preliminary task!

Planning:

Before we started to even consider filming we needed to think about what we wanted to do for our shoot. Lara and i thought up a few ideas which we thought would be able to show off the different necessities of the preliminary task and finally decided on the storyline of an affair. We picked this one as we thought it would be the most exciting to watch as its a controversial topic within society, but also thought it would be a fun one to film. After we'd chosen our topic we had to consider what each character would wear and their make-up if any; where we would have them located and who we wanted to play the characters roles. 

Location:

we had three main ideas, one: in bed two: in a living room three: having breakfast 'the morning after' we decided on our first idea, we did this as we thought as it is only a short film it would be most apparent to the viewer what the nature of the film was.

Clothing and make up: 

- Husband: As he is in bed and we're trying to show our viewer that he's having an affair, we put him topless. To show that him and his mistress have just had sex we're going to smear lipstick around his lips and on his cheek to give the impression that they've been kissing.

-Wife: we really want her to look as innocent and as pure as possible so we want her in all white as it has the connotation of purity and we decided that she won't have any make-up on to also give the innocent persona swell as having her hair tied up in a messy bun.

-Mistress: As she's also in the bed we thought we'd try and make her look topless too but as she is only an actress we will have her wearing an off the shoulder top to keep her decent, for her make-up we want her to look fake, so with lots of foundation and bright red lipstick with heavy dark eye make-up to show the contrast with the wife's look.

Who:

-Husband: we want someone with dark hair, who is physically fit and has a 'cheeky' looking face to make him look like a stereotypical 'player' 

-Wife: we want a woman who's got blond hair as when you see a woman with blond hair and wearing white it goes under the connotation of innocence and purity again

-Mistress: dark long hair with a prominent facial feature for example, big lips or a mole. As you can associate dark hair with danger.

Filming:

 we picked the bedroom and then put as many pillows blankets etc. red to show off the promiscuity that was happening. Before we started to film we took some test shots to work out our angles to make sure we were able to get the shots we needed to, we took turns in the filming and we shot the whole thing from each angle we were using as its easier to edit it all together that way.

Editing:

Ive used iMovie before as I've made family films with my dad so i didn't really have any trouble with the editing, it all went together fairly smoothy except the last frame. It was handy that we'd filmed all of the dialogue from each angle so we just had to cut each frame we needed together without the actor being in  a slightly different place or the camera angle being slightly off.

Final cut: 

Our final cut came out almost perfect, i think we got our camera angles spot on except in the last frame where the wife comes through the door, the camera was round the wrong way so when we came to edit it all together it didn't fit completely right, but luckily it still shows the match on match action.