Preliminary Exercise Evalution

In our preliminary task, our story was a about a boy named Taju going in for an interview at JD. However, when he is approached by one of the managers at JD, who happens to be me- his approach is very unprofessional and ends up getting thrown out of the interview!

It stars me and Taju Deen and was filmed by Ebun Awosiyan





At the start of the scene, we used match on action at 0.01-0.15 as we see Taju looking at his iPhone, and then we see the recruitment poster of JD, which is white and also looks similar to Tajus white screen on his phone. This is effective because it makes the viewer more interesting to watch as it is a nice effect.

We used the Eye line match as Taju walks along the corridor and sees JD's recruitment poster. 0.10-016. In this scene you see Taju walking along the corridor looking at his phone, but the suddenly looks up to look at something, which the audience do not know what he is looking at yet until we get a close up of what Taju is looking at which is the JD recruitment poster.

We then used the shot reverse shot constantly  during the interview with myself and Taju. 0.43-1.10. This is used because it shows two characters looking at each other, one character is looking at the other character off screen. This is effective because it makes it appear as if each character is looking back and forth at one another.

We also followed the 180 degree rule at all times while filming our exercise, however we made sure we conducted this very well during the interview between myself and Taju, which is why we choose to film it right at the back of the class room and not in the middle in order to avoid confusion. We also conducted our shot reverse shot accurately and stuck to the 180 degree rule. However I believe there was room for improvement with filming our shot reverse shot.

Additionally, I believe that we were able to include all the techniques we needed and also conduct a well understandable story line which made sense to everyone who viewed it. However I feel we could have definitely had time to improve the interview position and added a few more shots of the interview from different angles and techniques.