Practical Assessment – Shooting a short (How to make a cup of tea)

Students will take on their roles for the shoot and will be assessed on the filming as a group and the ability to fulfil their role on set. The edit will be individually assessed for each student. No more than four in each group.

Group: ………………………………………………………….

Role: ………………………sound recorder……………………………………

Student name: …………Chung Nguyen………………………………………

Shot/ Set up	Assessment	Grade
Evidence of planning – storyboard, shot list, meeting minutes of roles and expectations, location report.
Props – Mug, Kettle, Milk, tea bag, Water, Table	The props were prepared well, everything was clean and positioned well.
Shots (number)	6
Close up	Was pretty good as the camera got the water being poured into the glass.
Medium shot	The medium shot was good as well as it captured the whole scene in that shot.
Long shot	Long shot was good as we captured the actor and the background nicely.
Establishing shot	I put the establishing shot as the beginning of my film and start to edit from there because it works really well as the beginning.
Extreme close up	I am not really happy with this shot as I think it is better I capture the steam coming out from the kettle instead of the actress’s face.
Over the shoulder	This shot was not done well as the actres’s shoulder get in the way of the camera so it’s a bit hard to she what happened on the table.
High angle shot	Was good because the angle I chose make the shot look really nice.
Use of tripod	The tripod helped a lot as it make most of the shots easier.
White balance	We set the white balance as tungsten because all the shots was taken place in the studio.
Lighting/ set up	I only used key and back light as I was satisfied with how the light look without using the fill light.
Acting	The actress did really well as she acted comfortable and naturally.
Post production
Editing – Intro/ outro	I made the intro with the establishing shot as it captured the actress slowly walk toward the table and say that she was going to make tea.
Titles	I did the title by using crawl effect so it looks really nice as the title appear when the actress walk in.
Effects	It is a simple make tea film so there is not much room to add effects.
Titles	I made the tittle by using Motion.
Sound Effects	I kept the sound as it was recorded really well.
Music	I think the music I chose is very good as it match well with the content of the film.
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