Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task we had to create a short film consisting of a character opening a door and goes into the room for a short conversation with another character. having a match on action shot, short reverse shot and would also have to follow the 180 degree rule.

we began our task by creating a story board showing each shot and the speech that is spoken also what shot that will be used. on our story board we decided that our short film would consist of amy being a bully and storming into the toilets and asking me the victom for the money i owed her.

we shot the film with out any problems as we found it easy to shoot. we had to film our shot reverse shot twice to get each characters perspective of the shot as if their eyes were the camera. doing this we had to make sure we didn't move so it would look continous. another thing we had to look for was that we followed the 180 degree rule by having the same right-left relationship with each other.

once we had finished we had to upload our film to the computer we then had problems with this because our laptop would not find our film when we connected it. this took up a lot of our time as we had to check each component to see what was wrong. in the end once we had found out it was the laptop. we then switched laptops then our work was uploaded. we then watched it and looked to see what needed to be edited.

we began by cutting sections to make our scenes shorter therefore to flow more continously. by cutting our scenes we had match on action shot at the end when amy walked out of the toilets, we cut out and edited our shot reverse shot scenes to create our shot reverse shot which also flowed continuously. we also managed to follow the 180 degree rule.

we had two problems with our editing one being that we had a shot of me looking in the mirror as amy walks in you can see that i turn my head to her. but then it quickly changes to me facing in a different direction, a continuety error. to try and solve this we added a faded transition to make the change less obvious. but we know for next time not to make the mistake.

our second mistake was that we had a shot of me crying in the toilet with no sound. then a shot of me crying in the toilet with amy shouting. this did not flow continuously. as i had moved into a different position. we then had to change this by zooming into the image so you would not be able to tell. after editing we then had to record our directors commentary and add onto the film. we had to do this by cutting parts of the commentary and inserting into the parts that are relevent.

through doing the preliminary task i now know what i will have to do for my coursework, this has allowed me to realise what tools and programmes i will have to use and also how i have been able to practise using them. through our mistakes i am also now more aware of what mistakes i cant make in my coursework.