Group: Prelim task 2012

Outline The Brief?

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The brief of this task was to create a short clip to create the illusion of continuous action using specific techniques and our own. These were, 180 Degree Rule, Rule of Thirds, 2 lines of dialogue, opening of a door.

What techniques did you use?

Throughout the filming process, we covered a lot of techniques and gathered ideas about better methods of filming. To begin with we learnt that pace of camera movement was critical in order to give the right impression and experience towards the audience for example a slow paced dramatic shot does not create verisimilitude and seems distorted. Next, we learnt that in taking many various shots of the same sequence, we were able to pick and choose the shot we felt best suited the line of action. Finally, in order for editing purposes, we were required to shoot film before and after the sequence.  
However from the day, the best shot we took during filming we believe was the first shot of Yaser running through the door both be cause his identity remained hidden and we also felt that it suited the genre style. 
Lastly we had faced a one or two difficulties in filming, the main being positioning, due to the fact we were shooting in areas such as corridors, it became awkward whilst filming in confined spaces as it was difficult to see exactly what shot we were taking.

What did you learn about editing?

During editing the group learnt different editing techniques such as cutting on action, shot/reverse shot to show the conversation taking place between two characters, making use of editing as a way to give prevalence to a character and as a way of character exposition. The most successful part of post production perhaps was the way editing had been used for character exposition of both the antagonist and protagonist. 


Evaluate your production?

Overall I thought that we did well in our preliminary task as this was our first actual filming task, i think that the shots were well picked and edited together. I think we need to make sure to keep continuity in our actual film opening as continue to abide to continuity rules like the 180 degree rule.