Preliminary Task

For our Preliminary task we were split up into groups of threes and fours, and we had to make up four lines or more of dialogue for a script. We were joined with another group, as we had to have some actors to perform our script with action and by speaking the lines we had written down on the script for them to say. So our main task was to shoot the scene using camera techniques focusing on Match On Action, the 180 Degree Rule, Shot/Reverse Shot. We also had to have a person walking across a room.

Evaluation of the task

Overall I think we did really well, as we used the camera techniques in the correct and appropriate way and were successful in achieving the effects of these camera techniques. The particular thing that stood out in our short 1-minute film i think we did the Match On Action really well. For our Match On Action we had an actor (Cameron) walking through a room to go for his interview. So we had to film him entering the room from one room (the room he was walking out of) and we had to film from the room he was walking in (the interview room). To be able to make the action in the different shots look matchable, we had to make sure that when we shot it from different rooms that we had continuity. So to do this we saw that as he pushes the door, he pushes it with his right hand and had some paper work in his left hand.

We also saw that he pushed the door with quite a strong force. To consider all this in this shot we had to make sure all this action was in a continuous sequence and that it matched up in the next shot straight after. So to do this we filmed him walking into the room again but this time we filmed from the room he walking into. In this shot we had to make sure that the walking was the same pace and same speed, and that he appears to be pushing the door with the same hand (his right hand) and that he had some paperwork in his left hand. We never broke the 180 degree rule. The film was edited really well on the software. The only thing I think that could of gone better was the acting. Apart from that it was a successful task. Here is a video of our preliminary task film.