Conversation Video

Evaluation

Overall I feel that this video could have been a lot better. Firstly, I had stopped filming too early in one case and had cut off the end of Grace's sentence. this makes the video seem unrealistic and to avoid this I should have recorded a little longer than I needed and just cut off what I didn't want.  In some frames i had some wasted space which could have been filled up with a more close up shot of both speakers faces. This would have been better because It would show emotion more clearly on their faces. In one frame in particular Grace's hair is in the way of Frankie's face even though there is enough space for her whole face to be shown. I should have positioned myself in a different way so that Frankie's face could be shown clearly. I feel that a larger variation of camera angles could have been used, for example when both Grace and Frankie walk into the establishing shot, and if I were to film this same conversation again I would have have filmed one of them walking in and sitting down, and then the other one walking towards them in the point of view of the person sitting down. One final error in my conversation video is that I had forgotten to include end titles. This is something which will be important in future videos.

Despite these negatives, I think that the type of camera shots i used in the video such as over shoulder shots, long shots and two shots as well as the shot reverse shot sequence improved the video. I also think that some of the framing was good as i had used up most of the space in the frame.