prelim task

For our preliminary task, our assignment was to create a continuity task involving filming and editing a character. This included opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down on a chair opposite another character, with which she/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

The task had to demonstrate a shot/reverse shot, match on action and the 180-degree rule. This helped us understand different camera shots, lighting and sound involved when making and producing a sequence in a film.

Whilst reviewing our filming, we realized we needed to vary our shots, such as close ups, for example when we were exchanging the drugs. We should have differed the angles here when filming the shot of the drug and money handover. We feel this shot should have been a close up not only to help the narrative purposes of the film, but to signify the importance of the shot. The lighting was another aspect we analysed when we played the clip back, we noticed the fluctuation in the lighting due to the natural light coming in through the window, this created silhouettes in some shots and not in others. This gave the impression that we filmed different shots at different times. We will take into account these errors and hopefully improve on our final product.

However, there were quite a lot of good points in our assignment such as the professional editing of our clip. When editing we worked as a team and our combination of ideas created final version. The music we attached to our clip fit in very nicely with the tension and mood that we wanted to accomplish in our film clip. This was backed-up by the different camera angles and transitions we used when editing.

Overall we feel that we have achieved our prelim task goal as we have completed everything in which the task outlined. Whilst doing this task we learnt about various shots, team-work, lighting and editing techniques, we needed to use to create a certain atmosphere. We will take these points into consideration when doing our opening sequence to our real film.