Preliminary task

Hi everyone this Friday we did our preliminary task and we did a lot of filming and working with different techniques.  My group, Sophia, Richard, Courtney and I did all the different shots in one hour and teen minutes. This time it was much easier to understand what Adam (our teacher) had been talking about regarding the 180 degree rule, shoulder shot, wide shot and all that kind of things.

How the scene looks like:

1. Person B walks into a room coming trough a door
2. We then see person B waiting in the room for person A.
3. Dialogue takes place between the two
4. Person A then leaves the room and leaves person B.

The scene we were going to shot were about 4 minutes long and with different angles such as wide shot, shoulder shot, close-ups and pan shots. But when we were filming we as a group we could decide which kinds of techniques we wanted to use and decide in what way we wanted the viewers to be affected.

We did all the shots in wide shot seeing the actors whole body and face, to have a finished piece if time would run out. After that we did all the different shoulder shots so that we could get a better “view” in to the conversation that’s going on in the scene, this allows the viewer to feel like they are participating more in the conversation.  This went really well and we had the 180 degree role in the back of our minds all the time when we moved the camera. Later on we did the close-ups on details and facial expressions which contribute to more information and consumptions that the viewer can pick up from the scene.

The task was just to do these different shots and get it right (we also learned the film language better when we now where forced to use it, I mean like; standby, standing by, roll it, rolling and action). So editing and putting together the pieces was not a part of the task right now or today.

I think this task gave us big advantages of understanding the basics and it was a lot of fun doing it.

All for today

(Below is the pictures of the storyboarding)