Preliminary Planning Evaluation - Mehrabi Ward

Evaluation: Planning

What was done?

For the planning section of our preliminary task we first came up with the idea of our video, which was going to be a girl getting bullied by another girl. After that we came up with the name of our storyboard, which was ‘Mean Gal’. Before we drew out our neat version of our storyboard we planned what each shot would be. We then came to a final outcome of our storyboard.

Above is a photograph of what our storyboard ended up looking like. It shows clearly the theme we wanted to portray in our video. Once the storyboard had been completed we then allocated each other particular roles. Georgia’s role was to play the victim in the video. Charlie’s role was to play the bully and Natasha’s and my role was to film the video. Originally I was going to play the role of the bully as well, which is why you can see you bullies in the storyboard, but due to school reasons I was too late to the lesson and the filming process had already started.

What went well?

I think the things that went well were the different shots we planned to use for each part of the video as they looked as though they would flow well, for example when we used the shot-reverse-shot editing for the looks the two girls gave each other was quite effective, as you were able to see both the girls reactions.

Problems encountered:

During our planning process we didn’t really encounter any major problems, we did find it a bit tricky trying to fit all of our different shots into the boxes and explaining them, and were struggled slightly to think of something we could shoot for the match on action editing which could look effective. In the end we came to the decision to use Charlie opening the door, but using different shots to show her doing it. Other than that everything else went very smoothly.

If you were to do it again…

I think that if we were to do this task again we would change the idea for our video because, once we had watched it back after shooting it and once it had been edited we didn’t find it that interesting to watch and maybe it could have been better if the idea was more complex or exciting, with more actors involved. I also think that for our match-on-action editing we needed to include more shots as it looked fairly simple and almost wasn’t clear that it was match-on-action editing as there were only a couple of different shots used.