Preliminary Exercise

Before half term, sir gave us an exercise which involved filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.
A group can change this way of filming as long as they demonstrate that they can do:
- Continuity; where a character always looks the same to show smooth and realistic transitions between various shots.
- Shot/Reverse shot; where the camera capture two character exchanging dialogue to produce a conversation
- The 180-degree rule; When shooting a scene, the camera must always be in the same position so when editing everything from the characters to the background surrounding will be moving in the same direction in different shots.

Preliminary exercise (1)- By the time we began the exercise, my group wasn't in for us to practise. However Carla and Hannah allowed me to help them with their video. My role was to work on the camera in order to learn how it works and what i could do with it to establish different but useful effects. For example what distance i could stand at or what various positions i could change the camera into. We used many shots including; wide shots, over the shoulder shots (both in shot), close ups, mid shots, long shots etc. This allowed me to concentrate on the shot/ reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Whilst Carla and Hannah both dealt with the acting role; where they concentrated on the continuity of things. E.g staying in the same position, looking in the same direction, not adding any props that weren't in previous shots.

Preliminary exercise(2)- The week after my group was present and we were ready to shoot our video. Everything was going well with Neelam practising how to use to camera and myself and Samantha doing the acting roles until half way through we realised we didn't put the right tape in and therefore had to restart it all. However due to many interruptions and it being after school hours, sir told us to leave it for now and start again after half term.

Preliminary exercise(3)- Yesterday our group finally completed our footage. We decided to change the story line but keep our roles, Neelam on camera, myself and Samantha acting. For safety, Neelam shot us repeating our acting so when it comes to editing we can choose the best shot which will look realistic enough when it comes to joining it up with the next shot. It took us roughly an hour to do but in the time we achieved many shots including; wide shot, close up, high shot, mid shots,long shots etc.

We are now waiting to begin the editing.