Preliminary Task-Lesson 1

As part of our two minute film opening coursework a preliminary exercise is required and we embarked on this in todays lesson. The preliminary task consists of four shots; a long shot when entering the room throught the door, a two shot to show a conversation between two people taking into account the 180 degree rule so that the viewer is not confused and two over the shoulder shots to establish that a conversation is taking place between two people and they are not just talkin to the camera.

The first group began their exercise saying the song lyrics to "You got to be starting something".They managed to complete most of their task successfully but encountered a few problems for example; giggling amongst the class and noise outside the classroom. However, they managed to overcome these problems and filmed and completed their preliminary task successfully. We also identified the fact that around 15 takes were required to complete the task and they had to repeat their script four times so that we are able to edit the video afterwards and insert the four different shots.

Then my group began to film and we started to film the two shot, we giggled during the conversation at first as did the class so we had to do several takes. After a few takes, we managed to film most of the conversation successfully but towards the end the script included a mobile phone ringing which was a slight problem as we tried the student being filmed to play it on her phone but we realised it looked false and so decided to make another student ring the mobile phone but problems also arised this way as it was difficult timing it right so that it rings at the correct time according to the script. Therefore we only managed to complete one out of our four tasks completely as we ran out of tim

From this lesson i learnt that if we were to continue filming from this lesson onto next lesson we would have to have the exact same clothing, hair style, make up etc and this would be too complicated and if we were to differ it in any way it would not show consistency and would confuse the viewer.So we have decided to start again from the start next lesson and hopefully we will be able to complete it and see other groups too.