Preliminary Task

hi everybody, I am writing today about my preliminary task that my group and I had to do. I was in a group of four alongside Hannah, Rebecca and Laura. We filmed in the media suite and it worked well for our location as it fitted well with the acting and allowed our actors to create a dramatic entrance and a dramatic scene. I would say that I took an important role in the filming and took many of the shots of both the entrance and exit, and also throughout the scene. It would be fair to say that I was in control of the camera throughout most of the shoot and played a key role in achieving what was needed to create the shot.

Lighting

• we used a 3 tier lighting system, which provided us with hard lighting. This was key to our shoot as we wanted to create shadows, this gave our scene a more dramatic edge. The lighting system was succesful and effective in creating a dramatic edge in our shoot as it provided us with shadows and gave us a clear image of the two actors. However I believe that we could have used a dark lighting system to create more suspense and danger to the shoot.

Filming

• We started off making sure that the camera and tripod were set up correctly, this is important to the shot as it provides continuity throughout the shoot. We made sure that we were very strict in making sure that the tripod was level in each shot and that the shot was framed correctly each time in order to obtain a good series of shots in a limited space of time. In order to obtain the best shots we could in a limited space of time we made sure that the lighting equipment was not in the shot. This would have caused problems if it was due to the limitation of time and how we would have had to go over and re-do the shots more times than necessary. The angles we chose were important to creating the dramatic effect and excitment that we were trying to achieve with our preliminary task. Most importantly we made sure that the 180 degree rule was not broken at any me throughout the shoot. We constantly checked throughout the shoot to check if we had broken the 180 degree rule or not. Finally, the terminology could have been improved as we sometimes forgot what to say at what point, however by the end of the shoot we had been using all the right terminology at all the appropriate times.

Personally, I have learnt alot from my preliminary task in terms of practical film making. This has been down to the ways in which we made sure that all the angles were suitable for our shot and how we did not break the 180 degree rule.