Preliminary Task

In our Preliminary task we were put into small groups by our teacher and given a sheet with various different camera angles on them and lines for characters to say. We had to create a story line so that the whole task fit together and come up with a shot and prop list, after this was done we were ready to film. in my group our story line was that Character B was unable to tie their shoes and character B was getting impatient with them. Whilst filming we filmed various different shots such as over the shoulder, Close up, Long shot, medium shots and we also decided to add in extra shots as in extreme close ups of the shoe laces trying to be tied, POV (point of view) of Character A opening the door. Overall i believe that our group worked well together and in the end that benefited our video as we all agreed on everything after we had talked about it. I think that our video was edited very well and even though some of us found it difficult to understand how to work Final Cut pro, the programme that we were editing on, each one of us helped each other in some way to create a great final product.

Below is the clip of our prelim and the final product.

We differed between roles during the shooting of our prelim so that everyone got a chance to experience either filming or directing. However, the actors that were in our prelim were in our group so we had to show them what we were doing and how we were filming them. I had a better understanding of filming and all the necessary criteria to do it. I believe that overall our prelim was very successful, we managed to film all the shots needed and it showed off our skills when we were only beginning. We stuck to the way that we were told to film and the language we used was things like 'stand by' 'rolling' 'action' this also helped our knowledge expand on this area of media studies because we got an inside look on how people film and what they go through, obviously not to the extent that the big budget films go to. It was a very good experience for all of us when being introduced to media studies and what we should be getting prepared for.