Preliminary Task Evaluation
Filming process Our filming process didn’t get off to a great start as we were unable to film everything in the time we had for our original plan, we decided that it would be best to instead of doing what we originaly planned we would go for something more practical. Our mistake was making our original plan to complicated and involving to many people that weren’t available in the short time frame, we have learned that we need to take everything into consideration in the planning stage, this involves access to people and time. Meeting the brief Our preliminary task meet all aspects of the brief, our character opened a door and crossed the room before sitting down in a chair opposite to another character, we then used shot reverse shot when they exchange their few lines of dialogue and the camera never crossed the 180 degree mark so we kept the same character on the left when we changed shot and the same character on the right, this also demonstrates how we used match on action. Another example of match on action in our preliminary task was when the first character opened the door (13-16 seconds) and we had a shoot for outside the room and then cut to a shot from inside the room but the character was doing the same thing and in the same place. Technical Skills We tried to pay attention to our mise-en-scene but on reviewing our filming we noticed that the camera bags had accidently been left in the background of the shot (first seen at 18 seconds), it doesn’t look really bad but if you know what they are it becomes quite noticeable, this is definitely something we will need to pay close attention to in our main task. We spent a long time trying to get the match on action right between the door opening shots (13-16 seconds) and I am pleased with the way it came out. We also decided to use a mix of the shots to slightly change the tone of the situation, I really like the first shot of the ticking clock as it adds tension and a sense of importance.
