Preliminary Task

Explain what you were meant to do and how you prepared for the task?

Our group was asked to make a short film which included certain rules and shot types such as match on action and the 180 degree rule and then editing it to make a flowing sequence. By creating this short clip flow we needed to create a storyboard which consisted of different shot types such as over the shoulder, medium shot, close up etc. This also makes the camera man aware of what type of shots and who is going to be in the frame for the shot and the location of the shot. To also make the camera man aware of this we made sure we knew the storyline.

Here are some photo's towards our evidence of creating the short clip

Explain how you filmed each part of the task?


Before filming the clip we allocated certain roles to each person in the group, Conor was on the camera  and director, Ryan was an actor and also editor and I played actress and editor too. This was just to make it simpler for us when coming along to the task. We also made sure that all certain shot types were added and that the storyboard was being used right. We needed to make sure that the clip made sense and quickly done a rehearsal run through to make actors and cameraman aware of what was going on. We filmed a match on action shot of Ryan from behind walking to the door, then done a close up of his hand opening the door and also filmed him walking towards the camera, this was to make the clip more interesting and to show we can be creative and can use the simple types of shots. The next shot was of me sitting on the computer, you only saw the behind/side of me then i heard the door knock, then changed the camera shot so it was a long view and walked towards the camera. After walking towards the door we used the shot reverse shot of Ryan's conversation with me this was to show the response and facial expressions off each character. We needed to show that we was a skilled group so we made sure a lot of different techniques of shots were used.  The conversation was quickly over and then I walked off the camera and the camera panned at the same time to show me walking away. After walking away you see Ryan skip down the corridor in happiness, this made him seem like he was happy and couldn't care in the world.


Were you happy with the final result?

I was happy when we edited the scene together as this made it flow very nicely and had more of an story than just shot types so we added music/sound effects and transitions. When filming we had a slight problem because the door didn't shut when he walked through it so we had to do a fast cut so no one actually saw that the door didn't shut but we did add a sound affect of a door closing, this wasn't a big error unless you told people they wouldn't notice. there was also a problem off Ryan's hand wasn't positioned in the same place on the door. This was only my main concern as it would have made the shots not accurate, but we tried covering it up by using effects on the mini-clip. I also didn't have ago on the camera so i didn't then help by using the camera, this was a bit disappointing as i would have liked to off had ago!