Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Prelim task Evaluation

We shot our film location in the studios, which worked in a good spacial way for our task, however we had to improvize the sound effect of a door being opened and shut, aswell an exterior location shot since we were not filming in an actual room. This challenged us to work in a manner which we havent before, to create what visibly was not there.
        My active role was to identify which angles we have shot from, making the continuity correct and to make sure all shots were completed. We had to accomplish the exterior location,over the shoulder, close up, extreame close up, (if there was time) wide shot, (for both characters). My story board is shown below.

       We initiated the lighting to have full beem floodlights, which created a bright exposed setting. My thoughts on this lighting, was that it gave a good effect and it gave the notion that it was either a midday shot. However we did have to re-angle a few times because the camera mans figure was shadowed on the scene which made it diegetically invalid. This was important to the scene because we would hense be showing the audience that it isnt a real circumstance. The floodlights were effective because it hightend the drama in our continuity sequence.
        We had to bubble the camera when we were filming our exterior location shot which was outside on the gravel. This was because the ground was uneven and hence would make the camera angle uneven and unprofessional as a shot. A professional shot consists of quality of camera work, having the frame perfectly level unlesss it is intended to not be. We had this scene shot outdoors with natural which, meaning that we did not need to use any other artificial light. The angles for this were over the shoulder to show the direction of where one of the characters was enetering from. We also managed to have time to do a hand held point of view shot, where showed the angle of the character opening the door handle.  We did conform to the 180 degree rule by always watching our camera movements.
        This exercise helped me establish an understanding of angles and to watch the 180 degree line. I am now much more aware and capable of doing this correctly without breaking any rules that categorize the film industry.

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