Practice film

We were given a task to film a newspaper in an interesting way, by using different camera skills and techniques. I was not particularly happy with the camera work used in our filming, as most of the camera shots were quite shaky and unfocused, which made our filming look amatuer and unprofessional.The shots that were most successful in our peice were the 'over the shoulder shot' which showed the girls veiw of the newspaper as she was reading it. The reason why i think this was the most successful shot is because it was an interesting way of filming the newsapaper for the audience to watch. At first i found the editing confusing, as during our filming we had to retake quite a few of our shots, so it was difficult trying to remember which one we decided to use and what order they were supposed to go in, but after we had cut and organised all the shots into the right order it was fine. The continuity of our editing once all the shots were put together was quite smooth throughout, although some of the cuts were a bit too jumpy and didnt run as smoothly.Our short film didnt really make sence once it was put together. As the narrative we planned didnt really come together. Although you could tell that the girl in our short film was shocked about somthing she was reading in the newspaper by her facial expression., which is what we planned for our narrative. During our filming i learnt mise en scene is extremily important, as i beleive one of the reason's why i found our short film boring and dull is mainly due to the boring mise en scene. The scenery in our short film was in our media class room, whereas the other short films i have seen made by other students in our class that were filmed outside or around the college, i found alot more interesting to watch.We didnt have a lot of suspence in our short film, although there was a shot when the girl in our film was staring at a page in the newspaper she was reading with a shocked and suprised expression on her face, this created suspense and anticipation as we could not see the page in the newspaper the girl was staring at and wanted to know what she was so shocked and suprised at.We didnt forget to do any of the main, important things whilst filming, for example we always rememberd to film the extra 5 seconds before and after each shot.I dont think we used any conventions from real thriller films in our short film