Prelim Task

Hello :)

In this prelim task, we used shot reverse shot, 180 degree rule and close ups. Before starting to film we created a story board as a guide, in this story board we outlined what was going to happen in the sequence. We had to use an outline we were already given which was to walk towards a door, go through the door and to deliver a few lines of dialogue to each other. We drew off this for our opening sequence. We placed the camera on a tripod so that it was steady, we set it up to be facing the door. Louise then walked away from the camera towards the door, we stopped the camera when she reached the door. We placed the camera and tripod next to the door, so we could have a close-up of the handle as Louise walked through it. We again stopped the camera so we could take a shot of Louise walking through the door at the other side. As Louise walked through the door we used a panning shot to follow her across the room, towards Caz. Once sat down we used shot reverse shot to convey the dialogue being spoken. Using close ups on each character to show significance. Once we had finished filming the piece, we edited it on the computer. We had to cut a shot out as we had filmed the piece once and then a second time, so we had to delete a shot from the first recording. We added some tracks to add tension whist walking through the door. The issues we had with this piece was during editing we added transitions these transitions tended to be slightly jerky so we decided to cut them out. The zoom out of the bag at the end of the clip was amateur however we felt that it added tension. We took two shoots to make this clip. We reviewed the first one, and changed things in the second one so that it would look better. We learnt that we need to take care in the way we cut off our shots, although we found that it is easy to edit the clips on the computer.

Thanks, Bye x   (Hassan, Caz and Louise)