Preliminary Task Analysis

My group for the preliminary task was made up of myself, Mitali and Nikita. Nikita took the task of filming the raw footage, as well as casting our actors, while me and Mitali edited the preliminary together on iMovie. One problem with this was that there was little communication between the group, which meant that me and Mitali were uninformed on any storyboarding for the preliminary. This meant that me and Mitali simply had to work with the raw footage we were given. Something to learn from this would be for there to be more communication between group members, especially during the planning period.
The raw footage included all the footage needed for the preliminary task except one piece, which was footage of Person 1 walking into the room. This may have limited the effectiveness of the match on action shot, as although there was footage of Person 1 walking toward the door and of Person 1's hand turning the handle, we could not have any footage of Person 1 continuing into the room.
The preliminary task went well because not only did it allow me to practise my editing skills, but it allowed me to understand that the more types of shots involved, the more raw footage is needed, which makes the production process more lengthy. For example, in order to use shot reverse shot, the same conversation between Person 1 and Person 2 needs to be filmed three times: once as a two shot, second as a head shot of Person 1 and third as a head shot of Person 2.
The preliminary could also have been improved if we had included more shots to make the preliminary interesting, as what we had, to me, appears to be the bare minimum.