Preliminary Task Write Up

We were tasked with creating a preliminary video, which we had to plan, film and edit in our own groups. We had to include certain techniques in our video such as different camera shots, editing effects and plans. Particularly, the task involved filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

We had to plan out exactly how we were going to film and direct our video. We had to create our own floor plan, which detailed where, and when the characters would walk and speak. We also had to create a storyboard, where we could create our own script and story or we could take the script and story of a TV show or a movie.

One technique that we needed to particularly focus on using was the 180 degree rule, which is where you're only allowed to film on one 180 degree side of a person or object. We achieved this during the conversation that we filmed for the task but at the very beginning when we had one of the characters walking, unfortunately we broke the 180 degree rule.
Our teacher (Mr Seal) may have made us do all of the planning ourselves because he wanted us to be independent in the making of our film so the end product fully reflected what us students were capable of instead of what the students and the teacher was capable.
Some extra planning that may have been useful would be the memorisation of the script. his would have made it easier to keep the filming continuity going.

We used different camera techniques such as tilt shots, ECUs, medium shots and over the shoulder shots. We used them to make the video more sophisticated instead of a bland and boring video.

The main learning points from the task where that we need to work in a group to get the most effective results and that we al need to reach a conclusion quickly about what techniques and scripts we are using to make sure that less time is wasted.