Preliminary Task - Lesson 2

In today's lesson, my group made another A3 sheet with Preliminary task ideas on.
We wrote down our full idea of what we were going to do; so we had location, clothing, props, the type of scene we were going to do and the dialogue.

This sheet allowed us, as a group, to do a full preliminary video and know what we were going to do.
We used this sheet to help us set up or scene and create our scene.

After we did the second half of the planning, we started our  story board with our full idea on of what we were going to film.

 We then started the filming. We used the Nikon D3100 camera to film our scene which gave us a good quality image.
We set up our scene in a science lab with equipment that fitted the scene and used artificial lighting to make it brighter, however, as we have come to look at the footage, we realised we didn't need to light as the location was already bright and we noticed we had a light reflection on o white board which we couldn't do anything about. We now know that when we come to film the real thing, lighting may not be needed and if it is, then to place it somewhere that it can't be seen.

In this task, we did a number of camera shots including an over the shoulder shot, medium shot and long shot, however we didn't use a shot reverse shot, which we could have used. We didn't use the shot reverse shot because we felt that we couldn't do the shot with what we were filming and how we wanted it to turn out.

When we come to do the real thriller, we now have an idea of how the filming works. We also know what can be done and what we should think about doing, like using an artificial light or the camera shots we use.