White Men Can't Whistle

Preliminary Task Analysis



White Men Can't Whistle

White Men Can't Whistle is the name of our Preliminary Task that we have now completed. In this task, we aimed to display the influence we have taken from other dramas and the knowledge of media we have picked up thus far, such as camera angles, to make a clip that was a couple of minutes long and exemplified this, as well as having a go at editing raw footage to make the short film.

The title is a crack at the film "White Men Can't Jump" and was used due to the music and transitions we used throughout the film, trying to emphasise and embrace the cheesiness of it and work with it, also mainly for the phonological aspects of the alliteration of the "Wh" sound. I played both as the, loosely branded, protagonist and antagonist. This was done as another effort to make the film tongue-in-cheek with cheap humour, firstly to keep us entertained filming it and secondly to work with the resources we had such as the music. 

What I think went well in this short film was the editing, which although taking up a large portion of the film, displayed the technical excellence our group is capable of in a project of a serious tone. The plot, although shallow, was easy to work with and I think the group done a good job in keeping it entertaining. The camera angles we used, I think, were well established and secured targets we had set for ourselves in terms of the variety of shots we used, such as shot reverse shot, over-the-shoulder shot, tracking shot, and mid shot. 

What could've possibly been better was the transition of me walking towards the door, which was far too fast paced for a simple movement such as walking. I think it was a bad example of trying to achieve continuity editing as it was quite jumpy and not smooth at all. In the next project, we need to get a good balance of range of shots aswell as a smooth tempo to the shot changing.

Overall, I look forward to the next project as reflecting on this one has made me able to look we we've went wrong as a group and tackle that in the next project, but it has also shown me that we have potential to do very well in future tasks.