Ben & Alex's Preliminary Task Log

Production

The production part of the preliminary task was filming the prelim, in this we had to decide what to film, where to film, how many takes of each shot to do and different angles of shots. We had to film about three minutes worth of footage as we knew some would have to be edited has it would not be suitable for the clip.

We decided to film a character coming off of the stairs and walking through double doors, then going down the corridor to show that the character had a purpose of where he was going. We filmed a close up of a character going through the door as this showed that the character knew where he was going and then when he went into the room the audience knew that he was going specifically to see someone. We then used a shot reverse shot and over the shoulder shots to illustrate the conversation which worked well as it made the conversation flow and easy to watch.

In the conversation we filmed the same piece of dialogue in two different shots, this is because we did not plan the filming well enough, when editing we put both the shots into the clip as we were not thinking about the dialogue as we needed to.  Also we did not get permission to use that classroom we saw it was empty and went in there, this was a bad thing as at the end you see a lot of lower school girls walk and wait outside the class. The characters also did not stick to the script at the end as the angry scene was made up on the spot and did not look very professional.

Filming the clip took a lot longer than expected and this is because we had not planned out what we were doing to the thorough extent that was needed, therefore we made many mistakes which involved a lot of talking between scenes and lots of re-filming.

In doing this task myself and Ben learnt that we will have to draw the story board in much more detail than we did, as this will save time in the long run and will make the clip look a lot more professional. We also need to follow the story board and follow the script as in the Preliminary Task we went off of the story and the clip had no real meaning or point.

If we had to do the Preliminary Task again I think we would create the story board very deep detail and also follow the story line and script to make the filing time less, as this will make the clip much more professional and the audience will be able to tell that much thought has gone into it.

 By Alex Parker