Account Of Prelim Shoot

Two days before shooting are prelim task, we were put into groups and we chose what we were going to do are task on. My group decided we wanted to shoot someone being forced to set an alarm off. We chose the different camera angles we were going to use as well as the ones we had to use from the script. We wanted to use a point of view shot as well as the shots we had to use, which were a close up shot, an over the shoulder shot and a wide shot.


Then we filmed it. We started by talking about what we were going to do and if we wanted to get actors in. We decided we wanted to get people in the school to act for us. We then showed them what we needed them to do and gave them the script so they knew what to say. After that we started filming. First we filmed it all as a wide shot, then we filmed it all again as an over the shoulder shot of one of the actors. After filming that shot we filmed the whole scene with a close up. Then we changed sides and filmed the whole of the scene with an over the shoulder shot on the opposite side and then changed to shooting the whole scene as a close up on the same side. After this we did a Point of view shot so that we could get the point of view of each of the guy actor we used. The first time we filmed this it went wrong so we had to film it again and the second time it went better. Then we decided we wanted to film a close up of the girl looking nervous pulling her sleeves up and down, we filmed a close up of the alarm so that people knew what we were doing are scene on and we also did a close up shot of the door handle as the guy opens it. We also wanted to film a shot of one of the characters in focus and the other one blurred in the background but we didn't have time for that.


If we were to do this task again, I think we would have to speed up so that we had time to film everything we wanted.




After filming are prelim task we then got to watch are clips that we had filmed and edit the task. We edited are task on a program called Final Cut Pro, which was quite easy to use once we had been showed how to use it. We started by watching all of our clips through. We had made a mistake when we did one of the filming's, but luckily we had another one filmed so that we could use that. We decided as we didn't have that long to do the editing that we would keep it quite simple. We started by putting in the clip with are names on it, so that the examiner knows who did the film. We then dragged in the clips that we wanted to put in, with a mixture of close up shots, over the shoulder shot and medium close up shots. We had to keep going back to the beginning so that we could check that it all fit in right and flowed the whole time, so that it wasn't jerky. 

I think are overall prelim task was ok but if we had more time then it would have been a lot better. The overall task will be better as we will have more time to film it and to edit the clips.