Preliminary Task

     In the preliminary task there were a numerous of different things that made me enjoy it. The biggest thing that I enjoyed during the filming was the sense of accomplishment when finishing a good take, but even a better feeling is when you finish the whole shoot. 
      During the preliminary task I have learnt more of being in charge of the shoot, and by that being a better director. The worst part of filmmaking for me is the moment when you realize that the take that you just finished filming had errors in continuity, which leads you to re-filming the shot. In our group of 3 plus the actors we had been working well together, each person had been doing their job while interacting with one another. Gorges job was to be the cameraman, as for his job he had set up the camera and had thought of the exact camera placement for the next shot. Shane’s job was to write and record the shot to make sure that the continuity of the shots would have a steady flow, he had done a good job but there had been one problem though that pace of the two different scenes were a bit different that had been a problem for editing. As for me I had been the director and I my job had been to organize all the shots and to tell which one we would be shooting next, another job that I had was to adjust the small things to make the scene good e.g. the volume of the actors speaking, their positions, and their movements. In the end everyone had done a good job to keep the scene rolling in a good direction. If I were to redo this preliminary task and had to make a couple of adjustments to it I would have added more interaction shots of the actors e.g. open door handle.

     We had started out in the idea that it would be a crime scene but it turned out that we were not able to have that idea since we were not able to get a gun prop and there was no location, so it turned out that the studio was free and I decided that we should film something random there. In the studio we had found a spray can of some sort and thought that we could use that in the film. We had some extra time to shoot a couple of additional shots for the preliminary task so we added a shot of the door opening and a shot of the spray can falling to the ground, by adding those shots we were able to further explain what is happening in the scene. We had shot in a total of 7-8 different shots, which helped us and the viewers to understand more of the character actions. We had filmed an wide shot, clean over the shoulder shot from character A to character B, another clean over the shoulder shot from character B to character A, a dirty over the shoulder shot from bother character perspectives, then we moved on to the additional shots which were the close up of Character A coming in through the door and leaving the door, and the last shot that we did was a close up shot of the spray can being thrown to the floor. In the preliminary task we had filmed the whole scene following the 180 degree rule, it is the rule that there is a imaginary line in between two people in a conversation and the camera is not able to cross it during filming in order to create confusion for the audience.