Preliminary exercise learner response

 CRIME SCENE


1) Type up your teacher's feedback in full plus a summary of the comments you received from other students in the class.

  • Seriously impressive prelim: so much credit here! Music, dialogue, costume, camera shots, editing - all very impressive! The focus pull at the end is just superb.
  • Casting also excellent - combined with costume it is convincingly in terms of detectives investigating a crime.
  • Audio - music a little loud over the dialogue? Also a little echo on dialogue but that may simply be location.
  • Was the switch to homicide for main detective too quick? It was the one bit I wasn't totally convinced by.

2) Using a combination of your own reflection on the preliminary exercise and the feedback you were given, write three WWW bullet points and three EBI bullet points for your work.

WWW: Good mise-en-scene, camerawork, editing and narrative. Good cast
EBI:  Audio for dialogue was low due to the echo and the music was too high.


3) How effectively did you complete the objective you laid out in your mini preliminary exercise statement of intent?

The clip was differently described in the Statement of Intent as I could only use one location but all the technical side was what I intended to do such as the key conventions of crime drama. I included tense music and a range of different shots to convey the narrative and capture the facial expressions of the character. I included the representations I wanted of subverting stereotypes of BAME male people by using two brown South Asians as police detectives in this prelim task.

4) What have you learned from the preliminary exercise that will help you in the actual coursework project?

That I need to find a good location for my setting as in this preliminary task the room was causing a lot of echo making the audio slightly low and unclear in some parts. I should also take multiple back-up shots just in case.

5) Now you have completed the preliminary exercise, will you change anything about your actual coursework video plan? This could include your concept, cast/actors and narrative or technical elements such as mise-en-scene, camerawork or editing.

I think I might change the camerawork a bit so rather than just having a shot-reverse-shot using OTS's I will show the rest of the setting to have eyeline matches so the audience can see what the characters can see.

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