Evaluating my Preliminary Task

Task: Film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.
Preparing for the task: Drew storyboards with short explanations of each frame, shot type, diaologue, exteriror/interior. Assembled a tripod and camera.

Filming


My group and I managed to maintain a 180-degree rule shot. For example, shot number 7, the camera slowly panned across the room following character one's actions.

In shots 4 and 5, character 1 is walking up the stairs. In shot 4, we filmed a back view of her walking up, in shot 5, we filmed the front view . For both of these shots, we maintained a long shot to show the full body and the surroundings. We used this for audience not to be confused of where the film was taking place.

Shot reverse shot was used towards the end of our clip, dring the exchanges of dialogue between the two characters. They were both looking in the opposite directions to show to the audience they were looking at eachother. For these shots, we used an over the shoulder frame.

In our preliminary task, we used match on action, shot reverse shot, many close ups, 2 shot, over the shoulder, long shots, extreme close ups while maintaining the 180-degree rule.

My role during the filming was not only to act but to direct the shots and the positioning of other actors.

Editing
I am happy with the final result apart from some minor details. If we had more time during editing, we would have looked into adding titles and transitions between shots, ike fade in and outs aswell as a blackout at the end for dramatic effect. The space we used during fliming i found was limiting and loud. But, the background noises of the road and interior (diegetic sound) added a more realistic ambience to the film. When it came to the two characters meeting, we were on the balcony. The balcony was a good space as it was quiet and calm but, was limiting for long shots and camera movement. I think our shot reverse shot was successful because it was appropriate to the diaologue being said. If we had more lines to exchange, I would have looked into shots of characters reactions as the other characeter was saying a line.

I think we worked very well as a group and shared responsiblities equally when it came to acting, filming and editing.

Using the camera was simple in this case, the tripod was steady and could extend to a great height. We, as a group, had difficulty with Imovie but our editing, in the end, was successsul.