PRELIMINARY TASK
The Preliminary Task was our groups first mini film to produce. The aim of the task was to test our filming abilities and achieving quality shots from our shot-list we had planned.
Preliminary Task – Shot List
*Amy walking towards door (long shot)
*Amy opening door by handle (close up)
*walking through door into room (match shot)
*Amy walking over to table, rear view (mid shot)
*Chloe sat at the table waiting for Amy’s arrival (long shot)
*Amy sits down (Long shot)
*high angle – long shot - (Chloe) “ Hello ”
*Chloe: “You alright?” (Two shot)
*Amy: “no!” (Close up)
*Amy: “I know!” (Two shot) slide mobile phone across table to Chloe.
*Chloe: looking at mobile phone shocked and confused. (Mid shot)
*Amy: narrowing eyes/evil look at Chloe/Camera. (Eye line match). (Extreme close up)
*Chloe sliding mobile phone back towards Amy. (Over shoulder shot at Chloe. mid-shot. shot reverse shot)
*Chloe sliding phone back down the table. (Two shot) (Long shot)
*Amy grabbing phone from table, standing up, walking away from table. (Over Chloe’s shoulder shot)
*FINAL: Amy walking away. (Long shot).
*Amy walking towards door (long shot)
*Amy opening door by handle (close up)
*walking through door into room (match shot)
*Amy walking over to table, rear view (mid shot)
*Chloe sat at the table waiting for Amy’s arrival (long shot)
*Amy sits down (Long shot)
*high angle – long shot - (Chloe) “ Hello ”
*Chloe: “You alright?” (Two shot)
*Amy: “no!” (Close up)
*Amy: “I know!” (Two shot) slide mobile phone across table to Chloe.
*Chloe: looking at mobile phone shocked and confused. (Mid shot)
*Amy: narrowing eyes/evil look at Chloe/Camera. (Eye line match). (Extreme close up)
*Chloe sliding mobile phone back towards Amy. (Over shoulder shot at Chloe. mid-shot. shot reverse shot)
*Chloe sliding phone back down the table. (Two shot) (Long shot)
*Amy grabbing phone from table, standing up, walking away from table. (Over Chloe’s shoulder shot)
*FINAL: Amy walking away. (Long shot).
Evaluation:
During our preliminary task we learnt that its important to make sure the positioning of the tripod is correct. We learnt the basic techniques of camera safety and usage.
We also learnt how to use the editing software on the Apple Mac computers in order to apply continuity editing and practice for our main task.
After watching our work we noticed that closer concentration on our use of the tripod would have made a difference to our preliminary task.
For future reference we will need to improve on our placement of the tripod. We will achieve this by using the "level-buble" effectively.
We achieved a "Shot-reverse-shot" by moving the camera frames from one persons face to another.
In the finished Prelim film, we had Amy sat on the opposite side of the table from Chloe and in anger, Amy slides her mobile phone across the table. This is then emphasized by the use of shot reverse shot editing. The camera focused on Amy and then on Chloe, to the phone shot and back to Amy and Chloe.
In our preliminary task we chose to use a match cut when showing Amy's entrance thought the door we did a long shot of Amy walking towards the door and then did a Match Cut/Close Up of Amy's hand pushing the door open. Then to a match of another long shot of Amy walking out the other side of the door, and walking off out of the frame.
We also had to practice the "180 degree rule", we achieved it by standing the camera's tripod against a wall. this enabled the eye line matches to be accurate and we also used parallel cuts for "over the shoulder" shots. This ensured the shots would not cross over the 180 degree mark.
