Prelim Task

This is what we made for our prelim task. I was in a group with Mattie and Shanice. We were given one HD camera per group and a tripod to film with and were allowed to go anywhere within the school grounds. 

We were given instructions on what the film had to include, for example an over the shoulder shot. Before we thought of what the plot was in the film we noted down what the criteria we needed to film was. This had to be filming someone opening a door, two people havng a conversation, with a response from both actors and then finishing with an appropriate ending. 

We thought about making a comedy, but decided that a sad film wold work better with the shot types we had to do (when I was upset, a good over the shoulder shot would be talking to Shanice about what the problem was) this worked well in our film. 

We wanted an extreme close up of Shanice texting at the beginning so that the audience could read what was being said. We thought it would be effective to have three extreme close up shots of her texting, putting the phone in her pocket and then opening the door because it makes the audience want to know who it is that is holding the phone, as you can't see Shanice's face in the extreme close up shots.

When we watched the film back, we decided that we should have used the tripod a lot more, we did a lot of the filming hand held which isn't as professional and doesn't look good compared to when the camera is on a tripod. I think we could have chosen more interesting scenery as it is quite boring where we have filmed it.

When we were editing the film we decided to put music in the background that brought a bit of humor to the film because we thought this worked best with the plot. We had to cut and paste the bits that we wanted in our films which was easier than I thought it would be. I enjoyed editing the film and putting music in the background because it makes such a difference to the end product.