PRELIMINARY EXERCISE

On Tuesday the 22nd of September, we made a short film for our preliminary to test what it was actually like to film. I was in a group with Alex and Shehzad. We had to follow the guidelines set by our teacher which was to include: someone walking into a room opening the door, have a conversation with a shot reverse shot and to remember about the 180 degree rule in the room. We then went on to make the film in the lesson which took us around an hour to film a minute of footage. This can be used as a guideline to how much time we would need to have while making our actual film later on in the year.

There were many things that we found out with are preliminary which we need to improve when it comes to our actual film. For example, the rooms that we filmed in were quite dark and it was hard to see what was happening mostly at the beginning as it was a dark corridor going up to the room. The second problem we noticed was the sound and voice, this is because when it came to the conversation we realised that some things that we said you cant quite hear in the recording. This shows us next time we will need to either move the cameras closer, speak louder or get some external sound recording systems.