Recently my group and I completed our first product the Preliminary task, with partners Tilly Whitehouse and Tina Vidmar this is to gain experience of handling software and equipment that we would use later on for our main product.
Our group had to plan, shoot, edit and exhibit a short piece of footage following a criteria that being: filming someone entering a room, sitting opposite another person and sharing two lines of dialogue between them. This has to follow and exhibit the filming rules of 'the rule of thirds', match on action and shot reverse shot and continuity.
What went well?
The editing and the sequence of clips when put together in the final product making sure it showed perfect continuity through out, I feel it was successful, it went well when shots were matched up.
What is good?
The flow of the video was good and we managed to get all the rules covered that sir asked us to cover. I think our match on action shot was good too 0:06.
Did you follow the production rules?
The production rules were, not to create continuity errors, to follow the 180 degree rule, to create a good example of match on action, to match cut types and if using sound to match sound where appropriate.
Every one of those rules were adhered to and we made sure to check for any errors after we had finished shooting and editing, the only hard rule to follow was match on action as its the actors job to remember their starting and ending place of the cut, because if they don't we will have continuity when it comes to trying to edit the piece, but with our supervision we managed to over come this.
Every one of those rules were adhered to and we made sure to check for any errors after we had finished shooting and editing, the only hard rule to follow was match on action as its the actors job to remember their starting and ending place of the cut, because if they don't we will have continuity when it comes to trying to edit the piece, but with our supervision we managed to over come this.
What went less well?
We had an actor forget their hand positioning and when editing the clip we discovered this minor continuity error, we had to cut the shot differently so their hands matched up. We also had a numerous amount of repeated scenes where we had to shoot a few times to get the scene right, we had to go through all of them just to find the relevant scenes needed to put on to our storyline.
What did you learn about making films and working within a production team?
You have to communicate a lot between your team and your actors, to be able to get what you need filmed correctly. Being a production team is not a one man job, it has many roles that need to covered and while filming i learned how to perfect match on action.
Our Preliminary Task Final cut;
