Preliminary Task

For the prelimary task I will be working in a group with Jess Broome, Jade Kernohan and Tyshea Holden.

The preliminary needs to include, a character opening a door, walking across a room and they need to then exchange dialogue. In our task we need to include the following 3 camera shots

1. Shot reverse shot


2. Match on action


3. 180 degree rule

To make sure we included all of this the best option was to design a storyboard, this way we could plan before we went out and filmed it. While designing the storyboard we had to take into account: the dialoge that would be suitable for our target audience, where we will incoorperate the essential shots and where the location would be. Our preliminary includes the theme of drugs, taking this into account we will be aiming our film at teenagers as stereotypically they are involved with drugs.

When filming we decided to use toilets that looked abandoned and a typical place where drug dealing would happen. We began our scene with an establising shot and then a 180 degree rule. This was hard to do well as the location was very small and after editing we realised that we had to cut part of the 180 degree out from the film so it doesn't look as complete as it could. This will be taken into account for our final piece. We made sure that the protagonist of the preliminary who was the vitim was filmed from high angles to make them look vunerable and the threatening character was shot from a low angle. Match on action was included when a charater walks through into the room. We used a shot reverse shot to show the dialogue between the two characters, this helps with continuity.

After filming we uploaded the film and used Adobe Premier Pro. With this programme we were albe to edit the film by cutting some shots and adding transitions that were relevant so there was continuity. We would have liked to edit the sound out as there is a background noise, however we were unable to do this because of technical difficulties with the programme.

Overall I think the preliminary task went well and from it we can take on mistakes that we may have made and now know how to correct them in the main task.