Preliminary Filming Task

We created this short film to practice various techniques including camera movement, editing, mise-en-scene and sound. We tried to incorporate these techniques as best as we could. However as this was are first time doing a film clip like this we did encounter many problems.

We managed to film it with a video recorder with relative ease. We included close-up shots, over the shoulder shots, and long shots. Are camera man also tried to incorporate the usage of the 180 degree rule. I feel he did this fairly sucessfully. I feel we managed to capture emotion through the usage of camera shots and movement. However due to the actors at are disposole it could of been improved dramatically.

Due to the lack of props and costume we could not use mise-en-scene as a major technique. This is a factor we will need to improve on when making are proper film clip. We will need to think about costume, lighting, props and location to add to the realism and to add tension or dispear.

We had extreme difficulties with the editing. It was our first time using the editing software and we struggled to come to grips with it. We have learnt from our mistakes and I think our actual film clip will benefit from this. We also had problems with the sound as are camera man did not think there was a mic on the video camera.

Overall I am fairly disapointed with are preliminary task. We encountered many difficulties and problems. We will have to make improvements in our real task and I feel we can improve dramatically.