Prelim task Evaluation

When we did our Prelim task we shot in the studio as there was already a set in there set up, this location worked really well as the idea behind our preliminary task was set in an office. We decided as a group that we would change roles every camera move so we all ended up doing everything at some point Directing, Camera and First AD.

Lighting: The lighting we used in the studio was fairly hard so we had to dim it using the barn doors the lights we used where two red heads lighting from two different angles to try and get rid of shadows on the back wall, we wanted to create light in certain part of the room plus it was a dark day and we had to make the studio brighter. We started with only one light and found that it was not effective and it made quite a few nasty shadows so we set up another light and found that the shadows where less present and it looked a lot better.

Filming: We started off well we set up the tripod and put the camera on it when in position we bubbled it (made sure it was level), we then white balanced, adjusted exposure, checked our shutter speed, framed and finally focused the camera on our acts. We made sure there was no equipment in our frame whenever changing position and then we bubbled again. We chose our angles and shots carefully making sure we could see what needed to be seen by our audience. We had a mixture of low angle and high angle portraying who was dominant in our scene, we had close ups of the passing of the telephone and also close ups of the faces and the expressions on our actors faces. We did all of our shots in order to make sure we did not miss anything and also to save time, we did Wide shot first then Mid then over the shoulder followed by our close ups running through the whole scene ever time. We did not step over the 180 degree rule at any point in our Prelim task. We had a script we followed and when we had finished shooting all the shots we had to shoot we added some like a taking shot through the door, panning and some other close ups, we also made sure we where using the right terminology :

- STAND BY

- standing by

- ROLE CAMERA

- camera rolling/ camera speed

- ACTION !!

I have used the camera before and already knew how to story board and all ready knew about the 180 degree rule, the things I learned about where different types of shots such as- Wide (a shot showing a wide area- sometimes used as an establishing shot), Mid ( a medium shot, if shooting a person this will be from the waist up), Low ( camera is low down looking up at the characters making them dominant or strong)and High angle ( camera is high up looking down on a character making them vulnerable or less important in the scene)and so on.

The story board we used is shown below: