AS Media Evaluation – Preliminary Task

Tissah Green

We were given a time frame of about roughly two weeks, to come with a theme and storyline for our preliminary task. In the first week, as a group we mainly planned what we was going do, by brainstorming different ideas as a spider diagram. This helped us to come with an idea of what theme we could use in our production as well as what characters we would need and where the production would be located. We was allowed up to four people in a group, so my group was four people including myself. In the second week, we spent most of our time filming together and putting our storyline that we came up with, into action.

How Well Did You Plan Your Production and What Methods Did You Use?

My group didn’t really have a specific theme for our production. However, we did sit together and actually discuss and brainstorm different storyline ideas that we could possibly use. The storyline of our production is just your average day in college of two friends meeting and going to lesson together. If we had to pick a theme then our would fit into reality. We tried to keep our storyline simple, as our previous original idea, was a bit too dramatic and was proving to be quite complicated to film, as the storyline was a little bit complex.

What Influenced Your Choice of Theme?

Sitting down together to brainstorm our ideas was quite an effective method because, it allowed every person in the group to contribute their own individual ideas and have their say on things. Another reason why this method was effective was because not only did it let us map out our different ideas, but it also let us take different parts of each other’s ideas and put them all together to make one storyline or concept.

Was This an Effective Method?

Our original proposal initially seemed not too complicated. However, once we put it into practice, it appeared to be a lot more complex than we thought it would be and therefore we decided that it would be better if we just changed our storyline to something not as challenging. Another issue with our original proposal was that, it couldn’t have been filmed completely during the time frame we had. We wouldn’t have had enough time. Our original idea was in the genre of drama and it was the idea of a young woman in an abusive relationship, trying to leave. Whereas our new idea was more of the reality genre.

How Well Did Your Product Meet the Original proposal?

Camera composition is what is currently in the view of the camera lens and being captured. Such as a close up shot, a long shot and a wide shot.Movement is the effect that panning and filming have on the shots.

Camera Composition & Movement of Shots

Mise en scene could be made up of the following: setting & props Costume, hair & make up Facial expressions and body language Lighting and colour Positioning of characters/objects within the

frame

Mise en Scene

Diegetic sound is sound that has an origin point that is visible on screen, such as character voices. Another term for this would be actual sound.Non-diegetic sound is sound added afterwards such as narrative voice or sound effects. Another term for this would be commentary sound.

Diegetic & Non-Diegetic