Preliminary task

The preliminary task was the first time that I got to work with the group of people who I will eventually be working with for our coursework filming task. In my group there are four of us - Talisa, Bella, Laura and me. This task not only tested our ability at filming and directing a short scene, but also showed us how well we worked together as a team.

I felt much more confident behind the camera in this task than I did in our practice. Our group was focused and we were keen to get all of the necessary shots in the 1hr and 10mins that we had.


Above is the first page of the storyboard we followed which shows the simplicity of it

In order to ensure that we all had time behind the camera, we used two students from the year above as our actors. How we interpreted the script was basic and involved:

1) Character A entering a room.

2) Character B is sitting at a desk with a sheet of paper in front of her.

3) Character A and B have a conversation together.

4) Character A leaves room, leaving Character B at the desk.

We tried to include techniques that we have learnt in the year such as not breaking the 180 degree rule, filming using ECU's for emotion and a variety of different angled shots e.g. over the shoulder, wide shot etc. It was also important that we kept the continuity of the shoot constant, so keeping an eye on little things such as positioning of props was key.

Overall, the shoot was successful and we managed to get all the footage needed in the time we were given. Now that we had all the raw footage, all that we had to do was to learn how to use the editing programme on the computer and edit our shots together to make a flowing scene between two people.