Preliminary Exercise

Preliminary Exercise

         

For the preliminary exercise I worked in a group(pictured above) with Max Allum, Matt Elsom and Amber Law. We had to film a thirty second long short film. The purpose of the film was to test our ability to shoot a short film and edit together footage from multiple camera angles and takes, whilst maintaining the continuity of the piece. We filmed the footage on a Canon Legeria digital camcorder on Tuesday the ninth of October, in the media studies room. Once we had filmed all of the footage that we needed we edited together our scene on the computers using Adobe Premier editing software.

The shoot was good practise for several skills that we all need for media, Max and myself were both on camera so it was good practise for our abilities to perform on camera. At some point during the shoot I believe we all spent some time behind the camera, though the vast majority of filming was done by Matt with Amber's assistance; this was good practise for camera operating skills such as the ability to follow the rule of thirds, and set up a good frame around the scene. We all had a go at editing and this worked as practise for our abilities to use the software and the tools it provides to us, it also was good practise for reviewing footage and determining which shot is best and should be used rather than other takes of the same shot. It was also a good way of training us to work well together in groups, and to improve our ideas as we went along.

Over all the shoot went very well; everyone knew what they were doing and did it very professionally. There were many "fluffs" which meant that several shots had to be done multiple times, however these did not get in our way too much. Another problem we had was people walking into and out of the room we were filming in, which delayed filming several times but not for very long.