Film AS Preliminary Task

Pre-production

For our prelim task we had to create a short film sequence showing a character walking, opening and closing a door and finally sitting down at a table having a brief conversation with another character. We had to include a range of shots including a close up, medium shot, long shot, and over the shoulder shots.
First of all, we needed to storyboard our initial idea and translate the story into a series of different camera angles i.e. shots, then label what type of shot it was and any direction the character would be doing.
After storyboarding, we were asked to swap with another group, we were expected to then film from our new storyboard seeing if we could understand what was meant to be done.

Post-production

During filming, I took part quite alot . I filmed the first long shot of Megan walking, the medium shot of Megan walking to the door and the close up of the door handle. The over the shoulder shots were also partly filmed by me during our second take of filming that part of the sequence.
We had to re-film some shots such as filming Megan's feet walking as we did not film within the 180 degree rule, because of this I have learnt to always keep this rule in mind when filming. When editing, I cut matched the transition of the first long shot to the close up of Megan's feet to keep continuity, I also partly edited the sequence of Megan opening the door ( medium shot to close up to over the shoulder shot). Problems we had during production were that the camera we had for part of filming faded in and out so when editing, we found it difficult to cut each fade out completely without cutting the story. From this, I have learnt that if I use the same camera as before when filming next, I must wait for at least 5 seconds beforehand to make sure the fade is complete.