Prelim Task (2nd)

The task: In this task we had to get into groups of three again, this time I went with James and Nicola. We had to film a conversation between two people at a location, we had to make as interesting as possible but including the 180 degree rule.

Choosing our location(s) and conversation: We had to write down our shots in order before we wet off to film, we could also plan where we going to film.

Filming the conversation: My group decided to show a tiny journey before our actor got to the room where he will have the conversation, we used mid shots and long shots to show how he started the journey, then two POV shots; one from the bottom of the step and the other from our actors eyes getting into the lift. We then tried to use another POV in which the actor was spoke to directly, the camera lens being his eyes. This shot I thought was our best shot as it worked really well. Then we finished with our conversation using over the shoulder shots and a two shot.

We had to make sure that the conversation we filmed had good continuity, as this was our first try at perfect continuity we wanted to make sure that it was perfect. However we had to have several attempts at certain shots because after watching it back we could see where it was poor and would impossible to fix in editing. This was a good learning curve as now we have had some practice at it so when we come to make our thriller films we should be able to better at keeping smooth continuity.