Preliminary Peer Evaluation

After editing on Imovie HD, the class had to present the preliminary's. Our colleagues had to evaluate the Preliminary's to find flaws and give constructive criticism, we were aware of some problems with the preliminary, but the evaluation revealed some other problems, despite this, on the whole the film was fairly good.

From the start we said we had wanted to keep a fast pace to show the despair and panic of the piece. This was achieved with many quick cuts between the two actors, the antagonist is always the calmer of the two and this is reflected by the worms eye view on him, a point which was noted as a positive by our peers. On top of this the 180 degree was kept although some people pointed out that it was emphasized too much. All the shots and cuts were relatively smooth and the protagonist and antagonists when alone in a shot were centralized.

However some negatives were pointed out that we need to consider and address before we move forward. Our peers noticed a continuity error in one of the shots, this is when the protagonist storms angrily into the room and goes over to the table, at this point the door is still open however on the next shot the door is closed. Unfortunately there was a fair amount of background noise which was out of our control, but again this should be considered before the final piece, some problems were noticed with frame composition, a lot of wasted space was seen and some objects withdrew the attention of the audience from the actors.

However after hearing the evaluation and having some weaknesses pointed, as a group we are confident that we can expell some of the negatives from our work.