Preliminary Task - What I did

Preliminary task

What I did

I started off with this task by drawing up a storyboard with also my other group members doing one too by looking over the brief that we had received off our teacher. We had to make sure that everything listed in the brief was presented in the storyboard. The brief involved filming a character who is seen opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down opposite another person who they then will exchange some dialogue with. In this piece we also had to use some specific camera angle shots which include over shoulder shot/ over shoulder shot reverse, medium 2 shot and 180 degree rule. Also after filming this piece we had to edit the short scene which was also part of the brief. The storyboards had to be in detail which included estimate time for which each shot would last for and the different angles which will be used for that shot. Because this was out first attempt on this, we didn’t have to put in what the edits would be like, such as the sounds in the background etc because we didn’t know what they would be. I got together with the rest of my group members (Jemma and Aabidah) in class time and looked over each others storyboards. We analysed which storyboard made the most sense and wasn’t too complicated but also bearing in mind that it involved everything that the brief told us to do. In the end we chose to do Jemma’s storyboard which involved the brief and was also able to be done within our group as we only needed two people to do it meaning the third person would do the filming and we could all do the editing in the end together.

Together in our group we decided that me and Aabidah would do the acting in the piece and that Jemma would do the filming as Jemma was confident in knowing how to shoot the different camera angles where as neither me or Aabidah were. The filming had to be done in two hours of class time which was a reasonable time to do a 2-3minutes of filming and was thought to be too much of a time limit. However this didn’t turn out to be the case as acting wasn’t as easy as we thought it would be. This is due to me and Aabidah laughing constantly and not being able to focus as we have never been filmed before which made it more nerve-racking and was harder on Jemma who was filming. We had to do many of the angle shots again as they went wrong or you could see the giggling on our faces. However in the end, we were able to the filming properly as we had done some shots which were not needed in the film so that we could learn to control ourselves. We started off doing some editing in the last few minutes of our lesson by just giving ideas to each other to what we do but the rest we were supposed to do in our free periods. I was not able to be apart of the editing in the end as I didn’t have the same free periods as Jemma and Aabidah which meant that I would not be able to join them whilst they were editing the piece. After they finished the editing, I was able to see the editing they had done to the piece in class time and was able to give some feedback to them with what I thought was good and what they could have done instead. After reviewing the whole task and getting feedback from the teacher, we then had to put the preliminary task up on our own individual blogs.