Task 1 Preliminary Task

The purpose of our preliminary task was to construct a scene containing different techniques and actions that had to be incorporated smoothly into the scene; such as the passing of an object between two characters which we shown via a match on action shot (a technique where an action being performed is shown through two different shots: one from one side and then shown continuously through another shot on the other side; in our preliminary task we showed a I.D card being passed from Amy to Ryan through a match on action shot.

Another technique that we had to incorporate was the '180 degree rule', a common directive known throughout the filming world. This means that when our characters were in discussion, we kept the camera on one side of them so it wouldn't appear as they had moved around in the scene (the camera remained on the right side of Ryan and the left side of Amy).This helped keep the continuity of our preliminary task and makes sure it made sense to the audience. We incorporated this rule into our preliminary task by keeping the camera on one side of the actors.

An eye line match was easily included as it is simply when a character is clearly shown that their looking at something. We showed this in our preliminary task when we used n over-the-shoulder shot to show Amy and then cut to a shot of Ryan's face which clearly shows that Amy was looking at Ryan and vice versa. Just like with the eye line match, we showed a shot-reverse-shot through over-the-shoulder shots when Ryan and Amy were talking. This is usually how shot-reverse-shots are presented in scenes so we decided to follow tradition and show it like this.

In terms of storyboarding, we didn't push ourselves enough. Our storyboard is quite vague and empty, however on the day of filming we did put a lot of thought into how we wanted the sequence to look due to the lack of storyboarding, which would presumably made the scene a lot clearer. We added, I think, a wide range of shot and techniques to help improve the quality of the scene including: tracking shots, close ups, time-lapse and a match on action shot. This proved that we were able to execute different filming techniques and meet the criteria for directing and producing a scene. We chose the outside of the sixth form to film the majority our preliminary task which meant that we didn't have any interruptions and were able to easily complete the task.

The majority of our preliminary task was edited by another member of our group as he had a greater amount of knowledge and experience with how to use Adobe Premium Pro as he had already used this a lot throughout high school. Although he edited quite a lot of it, and we watched (to learn from him), I was the other member of the group that edited the task as he taught me a few things on how to use the programme so I can hopefully apply what he taught me in the future, such as how to cut clips and edited them into the film.

If I had the chance to do this task again I'd definitely want to get more involved in the editing part of it and perhaps more the creative side such as the script or storyboarding.