Preliminary Task

Our preliminary task was to film and edit a sequence of a character opening a door, walking accross a room, and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. We were told to demonstrate a few important camera shots, such as; match on action, shot reverse shot, and the 180 degree rule.


It took us longer than expected to film our preliminary task, as the room we used on the first day was not free when we needed it the next day. To keep our continuity correct, we had no choice but to start filming from the beginning. Our second day of filming was a lot better because by now we knew what we had to do, therefore we were able to do it far quicker and more efficently.
We did waste a fair bit of time finding a vacant room, most rooms were obviously in use when we needed them. At one point we attempted to film in the drama studio, but in the end it turned out this room was useless to us as it did not have any plug sockets in convenient places.

We did have a couple of technical issues with our equipment. For example, the battery life on the camera was not very good so we constantly had to have it on charge. This limited the amount of mobility we had with the camera.



After we had filmed our sequence, we uploaded it on to the computers so we could edit it. Once we had done this we made the credits. The credits were not essential for the preliminary task, but we thought it would be good practice for our main thriller task.

I think if we were to repeat this task we should worry less about the dialogue and focus are efforts more on the camera work. It would also be a good idea for us to take it in turns filming, this would give us all a chance to practice and work on our camera skills.