From my initial work on the pre producion for the first main exercise, i have found a number of aspects of it that differ to the preliminary task. The amount of planning needed for the pre production stages as been considerable compared to the preliminary exercise. I believe this extra work on aspects such as research and location recce will make it easier to visualise our storyboards and therefore make filming during the production stage a much simpler process with less chance of mistakes being made such as those during the preliminary. From this increased amount of pre production work, it has also become apparent that from our analysis of possible problems brought forward in the SWOT analysis we will be filming in public spaces for the first time and thus we will need to take specific issues into account before we film.
This may include getting written permission from Weymouth and Portland council to film at certain time and place for health safety reasons so care must be taken in checking out the requirements of each location in advance of filming. Failure to do so could result in our group being unable to use the location on the filming with a negative effect on the final piece. The importance of a location recce has also been highlighted after the preliminary project where our failure to recognise its flaws compromising the verisimilitude of the final piece. All the above was part of a wider problem recognised by the group that we failed use all the time that was necessary to complete a task as well as was possible. I personally this is something i can definitely improve on within the group through expressing my views more clearly and at the production stage due to my new role as directer which will enable me to have more control over the way we film. It must be said however that we noted in the SWOT analysis that our time management skills were an asset. we turned up on time for all the prior production work, we just need to use that time fully in the future. Further room for improvement could be in the actual quality of the composition of the shots. Although the preliminary was notable for the quality of the lighting, the placement of people within the frame attempted to keep to the rule of thirds to rigidly which meant that one of the characters ended up looking out of frame. From this i have learned that certain codes aren't as crucial at adhering to constantly. The rule of thirds is important for establishing importance/power but it is not as important as the technical codes e.g. the 180degree rule which an audience have been conditioned to expect as a given thing in film. As long as we remember this and apply it during the creation of the storyboards then i don't believe this will be a problem again. This does rely on another aspect of improvement for me and as a group which is the reference of storyboards/script closely during the filming process. I aim to achieve this by supplying all the relevant people involved with a copy of both so as we are all able to keep track of the progress being made. Again taking previous experience from the preliminary project and the identification in the SWOT analysis is the co ordination between the cameraman (me) and the editor at all stages of the production. in the work done so far i hope i have managed to do this by making all the shots known to them and receiving feedback in turn on their suitability for creating seamless continuity between edits. Failure to do this last time resulted in a lack of appropriate shots to edit into a complete film. If those involved in the roles had provided more feedback at the time then i believe this would have been averted.
These two films are important sources in the research of British Social Realist films for our film "Repression although the trailer shown here is more usefull in regards to Mise-en-Scene then they are for the opening sequence which we saw on DVD.
Finally, another problem identified through the same way as they others has been the need to film more than one take of each shot in order to give the editor more freedom in their work and avoiding the reliance on one piece of footage that might be flawed. To be particularly sure this doesn't happen again. we will use a log sheet to record all the shots we film and require that there be at least two takes of each shot recorded there. Apart from giving as a clear guideline for filming, it also serves as evidence that we are able to follow professional practices when doing production work.
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