The Brief and Preliminary Task

Production Task:

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source
 I chose the video task as i have always wanted to make a film and i have the chance to do make a film now, I also want to make films as a career later on in life.



This is our preliminary task www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh0_mk5rHtE

Our video has a cut on action, obeys the 180 degree rule, it does however break the 30 degree rule. there are 7 different shots, but there is no shot reverse shot during the dialogue. also at times the focus on the camera went and appears blurred, and at the end the camera wobbles due to a faulty tripod. during the task we were pressed for time so some scenes seem rushed as we took one shot of each angle. Also the actors changed the script each time we filmed them, this proved challenging for our editor to cut on action with dialogue; especially when he pulls the chair to the table. if we had more time the quality of the images themselves would be increased as would the dialogue and screenplay. No-one experienced any difficulties in using the equipment except the editor who used his own editing software instead of the Final cut pro software. the most important lesson I have learnt is to take the time before hand to make sure everything is perfect before we start filming, e.g. fixed lines and stable tripod.