Preliminary task

In our preliminary task, we have done as instructed and created the sequence of a boy walking towards a room, walking through the door, and sitting down and have a short converstion with another person. In this we demonstrated the 180 degree rule, aswell as showing continuaity. During our time doing are preliminary task we found a number of problems that ocured but also we found alot of things worked well and we learnt alot during the filming of this task. For example we leanrt in depth how to use the camcorder and its accesories aswell as learning the basic skills on iMovie.

The first problem we encountered was to keep quiet during recording as we found that the camcorder picked up background noise which affected some takes which lead to early cuts in our filming. Another problem we faced was the size of the area that we were allocated to film in and props were to a bare minimum. Another problem we faced was keeping the 180 degree rule as the size of the room was so small which affected our filming however due to these circumstances we felt we did well at keeping this rule. Another plus, is when we threw the bag from one person to another, we edited it quite well, to make it look continuous and smooth. We also found that we had a good range of shots with good stability thanks to the tripod which helped tremendously with keeping the camera still and holding the camera in place.





By doing this preliminary task we found a number of ways we could improve in our film making for example, we could make takes last longer to give us more editing time so have more time to edit. Also we found we could improve on our shots and have a variety of different shots, but one thing that stopped us doing this in our preliminary task was the size of the room we were giving to film in and also our surroundings we had to work within.

By Michael Keenan, Max Blanche, Joel Duxbury and Louis Percival