For my preliminary task we had to film a short film of a character opening a door walking across a room, sitting at a table and sharing a few lines of dialogue with another character, the getting up and walking away. In my group were James Minton and Callum Harris. Our task had to be completed twice, We do not have a copy of our first draft but by having done the first draft we had many things to improve on.
Editing:
- In our first attempt our editing of our sound was incredibly terrible, we had no sound and any sound we tried to record sounded like a robot. This gave us the idea to keep our original soundtrack and just add music when no one was talking, this turned out very well in our second draft.
Another editing problem was that we had cut a shot too early and one our our characters foot jumped from one position to another. This was once again fixed in our second film.
Framing
- Our framing was good in our film and we followed the rule of three throughout it, however we had to be careful of not cutting off any characters. We did this a few times with one of our main characters and ended up cutting off part of their arm, but we fixed all these things in our second film and we were very cautious with our framing.
Shots
- We used many shots in our film, these included, shot reverse shot, over the shoulder shot, centre shot, close up and point of view shot. Our point of view shot however went quite wrong, the camera was too close to our character face and was not realistic enough.
Finally, without further ado, here is our preliminary task!
