Preliminary Task

Brief: To create a short video showing someone walk across a room, sit down and take part in a short conversation. It should demonstrate continuity, a match-on-action shot, reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Storyboard:

Script: Headteacher: "Take a seat. This time tell me the truth."

Student: "I told you I don't know anything!"

Final result:

Analysis: Overall, I think the outcome of our preliminary task was quite successful. We managed to demonstrate continuity, a match-on-action shot, a reverse shot and the 180-degree rule effectively during our short film. The storyline also fits into the brief; showing a student knocking on the headteachers door, walking across the room, taking a seat at his desk and exchanging a few lines of dialogue. On the day we experienced a problem because 2 out of the 4 members of our group were absent. Due to our limited time scale for production we decided we would both have to appear in the film as well as filming it. We overcame this problem by when one of us was required in a shot, the other would film. However, there was one part with both of us in shot at the same time. To resolve this, we set up our tripod and camera in the correct position and pressed record before getting into position and acting out the scene. We then edited the footage to eliminate the parts where we could be seen getting into position and turning the camera off, so it appears as though there is actually a third person filming it. The quality of our preliminary task could be improved by shooting in a better location and with better props eg. door sign, however we did the best that we could with the limited facilities and time which were available to us.