Reflection of p task We had to create a 2-minute clip including the following:

180 degree rule, Match on action, Shot reverse shot, Conversation and walking into a room and sitting down, Parallel editing, Graphic match and Consideration of framing – range of shot types, Range of angles, Consideration of lighting, Tracking/panning – movement, Consideration of mise en scene – costumes, gestures, expressions, setting, Enigma codes and action codes.

I believe our planning as a group was one of the main reasons why I believe the p task was not successful. During planning we found it hard to make up our minds on the motivation behind why the characters were meeting up. Deciding on who would play the characters was easy. I & Hentrik were both willing to be in the actual video, which left Harley doing the camera works.

Everyone contributed effectively, Harley done a lot of the camera work as me and Hentrik were in the actual video, all 3 of us contributed to directing. Harley edited his own version, which left me and Hentrik to edit together. The reason why we didn’t make our own individual edits is because Hentrik is relatively new to editing, so I led and helped him with the process as I know how to edit well.

For the main task I’d rather not be in the actual video, this is because I’d like to have more of a chance to do camera work, which is one thing I lacked in this task.

Things which went well on the day of filming were our improvisation. Our planning was relatively poor which led to us having very little knowledge on what we would actually be filming. However as a group we improvised and came up with ideas as we went along. Although this went well, it did take up a lot of unnecessary time. In the next task I believe we would need to improve on our planning so when it comes to the day of filming we can get straight in to and not waste any time on thinking.

Overall I believe this p task was poor in comparison to what I & my group members are capable of, we did not meet the full requirements of the brief which we look to do when making an improved version of the p task.