In our group for media, containing me, Molly Emmerson and Claire Golightly, we filmed a short conversation as practice for our media production. Me and Molly were the actors and played a scene where I lost my phone under the stairs and she helped me find it. It only lasted a minute or so and was a short scene. We watched it back several times to check errors that we made when filming and sometimes had to re-film scenes because we had got it wrong. We used a series of close ups and medium shots and stuck to the 180 rule when filming to keep it in good quality. This is our groups preliminary task that we filmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--KJpSWFNRE
I think our group planned well and had a good plot, also cooperating well with each other to use the best possible camera shots that we could.We worked very well together and listened to each others ideas. We struggled sometimes setting up the camera to film our shots and also to stop ourselves giggling sometimes and keeping our composure before filming a scene, however we overcame this well as we were able to film and finish the scene in a pretty quick amount of time and me and my fellow group members were all happy with the end product. I believe next time we could have maybe took more time to compose ourselves before scenes and also looked for a wider variety or camera angles, as I counted that we only really used three. When we film our opening sequence, its vital to remain composed and also to make sure we have the best camera shots with the most meaning and effect towards what we are trying to get across in order to draw in our audience. Watching our footage back helped us realise the mistakes we made and also how we could better things and what to look out for when we re-filmed. Watching back our mistakes also taught us lessons for our production and how we could make things better and also how to avoid the mistakes we made in this task.
Overall, this task has helped me and my group greater understand the concepts of filming and also what we can do to make it more gripping and entertaining, such as using different camera angles for effect and also work on the timing of our shots. Our overall acting is good and I do not believe it needs to be improved or anything, just to look out for our camera work and shots and I believe our final product will turn out very well.
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You have provided a minimal analysis of your preliminary task, briefly explaining what you had to do, the different camera techniques and equipment you had to use, and what you think you did well with.
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5) Elaborate on how this has prepared you for filming your opening sequence, what have you learnt from this?
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