PRELIMINARY TASK

For the preliminary task, we were asked to film a scene that included:

• Someone walking to a door
• That person walking through the door
• The same person sits down
• Has a conversation with another person

Once we had done this we went to look for a location to use and all decided that it should start indoors with the person going outside as we wanted it to be quite different. However when actually going to record this we experienced a few problems ( loud music inside, the sun glaring onto the camera at every angle, the distance from the door to the other character.) So we decided that we needed to film from outside to in, and so we found that walking in from the front of the school to sitting inside worked better than expected and had perfect natural lighting.

We then went on to edit the clips together using the programme final cut pro, however once putting the clips together we realised that we had made a few mistakes. We realised that we had broken the 180 degree rule when the conversation was taking place, the result of this is the audience feeling almost disorientated and believing that perhaps something had changed or the scene had changed. We also found that when doing an over the shoulder shot we had left a large amount of space in either side of the frame, but this did mean that the audience could see the characters faces clearly which was also highlighted by the interesting lighting inside the building.
Overall, when completing the preliminary task we did learn about the different techniques including the 180 degree rule and we were also able to learn the basics of final cut pro.