Prelim. Task Evaluation

  We filmed a baisc scene using loads of different chots and then edited them togather to make a more interesting piece. the dialogue was really basic constisting mainly of 'do it' 'no, i cant' 'do it!'

We decided to film in the editing suite, we made a simple set of a desk and chair with a telephone on it. the background was a white wall. the lighting was harsh which gave a good office feel to the piece which is what we were going for. The set-up of the room was great because we had a glass  door only about 5 paces aways so we could choose wether or not to put the poor in the frame or not. in the end we left the door out but filmed the actor seperatly coming in/out.

 As a group we worked well, each person was given at least one or two shots in which they were the director and camaraman. when i did this i decided what shot i wanted, (I chose an over-the-shoulder and then a two shot in which we cought the whole scetch) we would set up the shot and bubble the camara, someone would go throught the ritual of :

'Stand By'  - 'standing by'

'Roll film'  - 'rolling film'

'Action'  -  'action'

allow for a lead out

'Cut!'

     Like i said the lighting was hars (Light and hard) which provided a good office atmosphere.  if we had softer lighting it could easily have made a different impression onthe scene and the situation, it could seem like a friend telling the other to hurry up and order the pizza before everyone arrives or it could have been more threatening like we could have replaced the phone with a guy. The bright lighing also allowed us to creat shoddows to give the actors a threating air rather than a more exposed innocent look. If we had wanted the same light without the shaddows we would have lit it from other directions aswell e.g from the floor instead of just above.the saddows worked really well as it aloowed the actors to hid their face by loking down and looking quite scary when the suddenly look up and have the light hitting the face yet leacing the eyes dark.

   The things we need to remember when filming are :

well first make sure the tripods legs are set staright and not all at different lengths.

we need to get the hieght right aswell (e.g if filming over the shoulder you must remeber that although the actor may be crouching to begin with, they may satnd up or move in such a was the blocks your view.)

bubbeling is also very important, unless you want a wonkey shot. (just remember to secure camara afterwards)

make sure that there's nothing unwanted in the hsore like the leg of a chair or the edge of a table.

we filmed the whole sequence with a wide whot, the we did all the others such as shot reverse shot, close ups zoom in/out e.t.c

we had a wall that prevented us breaking the 180' rule but in the few ocasions when is was possible the break it we chose not to as it would just get really confusing.

Editing the preliminary task was really fun. we filmed the whole thing over and over agin from different perspectives and angles thien when we cane to edit it we chose shots that best convayed the emotio. we had a super-close up of (Ben's) eyes flickering around, this showed the tension of the coming role play. we had close ups of the telephone to put emphasis that this is going to be a major part of the short.
we used repeated clips at different angles to exaggerate and draw attentionto certain parts, like when (Jack) waled through the door, we had a long shot, a close up of the handel and a reaction shot from (Ben) to (Jack).
we would cut clips and slot them into place where we wanted them to go and how long we wanted the shot to show for.