Thursday, 27 September 2012

Prelim Tasks

In our prelim task, we film a man and a woman having a conversation, with the man trying to convince the woman to do something she didn’t want to do. In this instanced, we used the idea of the man trying to persuade the woman to smoke. One of the things I liked about the prelims was the fact that we were able to use the camera to film something for the first time, which I found very interesting, and also how we were able to use a proper set, and experimenting with the different props to use in order to make the shots look as realistic as possible. One thing which I learnt about the process of making a film was that it takes a very long time to gather all the different types of shots, as I thought it would be a quicker process but the realised that a lot of shots were necessary in order to make the film look as good as possible. One thing which I didn’t like about filming was how we didn’t get a chance for everyone to have a go at different roles (director, filming, managing continuity), as i would have liked to try out every one of these. I thought as a group we worked very well together, and all agreed at the beginning that we wanted to film as many extra shots as possible in order to have as much material as possible to be edited. I worked with another member of the group on filming the shots, and we filmed about half each, and then when we weren't filming we watched the other film so we could try and gain more knowledge/see what we were getting wrong by looking at the other person. If i had the chance to do it again i would have wanted to make the scene a bit longer at the end, to see what the woman did once the man had left the room. I think we could have filmed close ups on her face and the cigarettes in her hands in order to convey her emotions and portray a slightly bit more of the story. Our choice of location was a set of a room in a house, which had a door on window on one side and another big window on the other side. Our props were a cigarette and a lighter. The use of these allowed us to shoot a close up of the exchange of hands of the cigarette and lighter, which is useful to cut to and makes the film more interesting, and also makes it clear to the audience what is being passed between them. The fact that there was a door enabled us to have the man walking through the door, which meant he was filmed entering the room and therefore maybe the fact that he had more screen time implied that he was a more important character. The window opposite the door was also used for us to film through, because we wanted to give the impression that there was someone outside watching their conversation. We shot as many different shots as possible during the time we had, for example, we filmed a whole run through in a wide shot (as wide as we could film outwards while still including all the set). We also shot a high angle shot on the woman, trying to make her look inferior, a close up shot of each character, over the shoulder shots (keeping the 180 degree rule in mind), low angle shot on the man to make him look more important, as well as the shots which were required of us. In the group i filmed some shots, which were, the low wide shot, and the over the shoulder shots, and also the shot through the window.

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