Evaluation question 7

Before we started doing practical work in media we lacked the skills we would need to perform the task for the 2 minute film, this Is why we believed that the preliminary task was so significant in giving us experience with the camera and using different shots during its creation, we had to make sure all the shots had continuity and that we were prepared before we started doing the actual shooting of our final film, from this task we learned how to use the cameras basically and we also learned how to prepare each shot in order to film it, we learned key things such as starting to film a clip a few seconds before and finishing a few seconds after in order to ease the process of editing the film and being able to make it look smooth and make sure the film was long enough for it to not look unnatural and amateur.

We also had brief experience in acting as we had to perform during the task; we used different shots such as over the shoulder shots and made sure the 180 degree rule was in place. This helped us progress and learn new skills we would essentially need for the film. When we went to film our group knew how the cameras worked and the best positions for each shot and the duration the shot needed to be, using the tripod we were also able to incorporate new shots such as a pan shot which looked really good in our opening scene. We positioned the camera in a good position where all 3 characters could be seen easily and could be followed down the driveway for our opening scene which we believed looked really good as an introduction to all the different characters names and the title of the film.
When we proceeded to the scenes in the woods we used our experience and made it so the camera was stable in position and would not shake or move to distort the video we were creating from these scenes, we made sure there was sufficient light as we were taught this would be key to film in dark places and make them look good and still be able to see the characters clearly even in pitch black conditions which a lot of our shots took place, to do this we had to use what we learned from both our tutors and experience doing other tasks to be able to make our film, as we believe, a success.