Our Preliminary task involved us filming an unknown character walking through a hallway and sitting down opposite another unknown character. The characters exchange three lines of dialogue each and then the first character gets up and walks away into another corridor. We mainly used over the shoulder shots, long shots and medium shots to record the action but we did involve other shots such as close ups to add a better effect to the task. All shots were planned beforehand as well as the dialogue spoken.
We decided to film at Havering College in the Creative Arts Block as it's layout connected well for our shots, making it easier to keep to the 180 degree rule and keep a continuity to the shots. The only problems we came across was getting the right height of the camera so it lined up with the characters height but we soon got used to how to change the height on the tripod.
Doing this task taught us how to use the camera and the tripod correctly as well as loading the tape into the camera. We learnt how to film and edit a short sequence which gave us better knowledge for our opening sequence task. This gave us a good introduction and practice on being a director, camera person and editor. Having this understanding has given us the knowledge and confidence to film action for our opening sequence well.
Friday, 18 February 2011
Introduction to Personal Blog
This is my personal blog for my AS Media Studies coursework, in which i will be part of a three man group whos aim is to all participate in the pre-production, production and distribution of a two minute opening sequence of the genre of our choise. Between us we have chosen thriller as our genre, one of the main reasons behind this is that thrillers have typical codes and conventions which are easy to apply to our opening. My particular role in the group is director and joint editor with Catherine Seiersen
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