Evaluaton of Peliminary task

When we started to brainstorm our main ideas to each other our first idea was an interrogation sort of style scene with one person already sat down and one standing to show the difference in dominance over the sequence. However after this we began to experiment with other ideas with the idea of a mental therapy session in someones home as if the therapists had bee called over on short notice.
Jack, Chris and I then began to develop on this idea and we gradually began to come up with a story line. However in doing this we realised that we had over complicated the whole story as we had added in to many factors that were difficult to understand from the audiences perspective. So we had to go back to the basics which wasted an entire days filming. However once had come up with an easier storyline to read we got filming again and it was much easier from then on.
When it came down to lighting the kitchen lights in my house did the job of illuminating the subjects face without it looking like we had installed some advanced lighting equipment.
However when it came to sound the large room made speech echo quite a bit, this didn't make the speech difficult to understand in fact it was quite clear... it was just that it was an imperfection that you do notice. We also had the problem of a mirror in the background which in some shots we noticed that we could see the camera and those operating the camera in some cases so we need to look out for this next time. Plus at one point with one shot we did break the 180 degree rule which was really quite a stupid thing to do especially considering that we didn't notice it until we finished editing it.
Our mise en sine was used to create the atmosphere of someone calling over a group of therapists on short notice with a sense of urgency, so we made some mess on the counters in the background and I had a lot of family photo's which helped create this homely environment, however there was to much going on in the background which drew the viewers attention so the viewer instead of looking at the characters was drawn to the images in the background and would struggle to keep up. In terms of costumes the two therapists dressed quite smartly in white shirts and waist coats. Where as the patient wore a Black hoodie with dirty jeans to show that he hadn't made much preparation for the others arrival, this helped to represent the patient in a negative way but the therapists in a positive way. However there is also a sense of mystery about the patient as he continually has flashbacks that are short and snappy as if he has tried to forget them or if he doesn't remember them that well anyway but that is for the audience to figure out for themselves.

 

Here is a photo of the preliminary video showing the entire task.

As you can see the Mise en scene terrible as we didn't prepare for the actual filming. So we still had family photos and furniture lying around which didn't exactly make sense for a mentally deranged patients home.