· Does your film use continuity editing so that the sequence of events are clear and easily understood by the viewer?
Our film had short cuts from one clip to another which made the story easy to understand and follow as there was no distractions between the clip for our attention to be drawn away from the storyline. Our story is fairly easy to follow and everything that we know, the audience knows too so there is nothing to be confused about. For example, when the lights flicker on and off or we hear a bang, we will make a statement about this whilst filming so the audience know that that sound was something to be concerned about, this way, the audience doesn’t have to wonder what bits of the film do or don’t have significance.
· Have you followed the directions in the brief? (A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character. An exchange of dialogue occurs.
We didn’t follow the brief but we made ours different, using a variety of camera angles and movements which follow the list of things that need to be involved within the preliminary and we believe that if we followed the brief our preliminary wouldn’t of been as good. By not following the brief, our short clip become more exciting and more interesting then what it would have been if it was of friends exchanging a conversation.
· Have you used match-on-action?
Yes we used this near the end of our Preliminary when the characters begin to walk towards the door to see what the sound was behind it, then the camera cuts to an extreme close up of my hand opening the door then there is another cut to a reaction shot which shows how we feel as to what we can see behind the door.
· Can you explain what a match-on action involves?
This is an editing technique which involves a shot of something e.g. someone opening a door and then another shot of the aftermath of that action e.g. someone’s expression as they open that door. This is like a reaction shot but we see the action first.
· Have you used shot/reverse shot?
Yes, we used shot reverse shot when myself and Molly were having a conversation. When I say my line the camera is focused on me looking off screen to where Molly is supposedly standing, then when Molly replies the camera cuts to her then to see my response the camera cuts back again to the original shot.
· Can you explain what shot/reverse shot involves?
Shot/reverse shot is a film technique which involves one character who is shown looking (usually off-screen) at another character, and then the shot cuts to the other character looking "back or responding at the character who started the shot. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer will hopefully assume that they are looking at each other.
· Did you observe the 180-degree rule?
Yes, our cameraman, Theo, kept to the right side of us throughout the whole film apart from when he did a point of view shot as I was opening the door which was on the left side of me, but this wouldn’t have caused confusion as it was from a characters perspective and the audience had got a chance to take in the surroundings of the character so they knew what angle the door was at without feeling lost.
· Can you explain the 180-degree rule?
The imaginary line allows viewers to orient themselves with the position and direction of action in a scene. If there was a conversation between two characters and it was using a shot reverse shot and it broke the 180° the characters would look as if they had switched places on the screen.
· What role did you play in the making of the preliminary task? (e.g. filming, acting, editing,equipment organisation etc.)
We all had many roles for the production of our preliminary. My role was to be an actor, co-editor and co-director.
· How would you assess your contribution to the group?
I contributed as much as I could to the group, I organised us actors when we was filming, thinking of our lines to say and who would say them, where we should stand and where the camera should be facing, then when we was putting all of the clips together at the end we all contributed ideas as to when and where our sound effects should go and if they sounded right or not. We all planned the story line as a group and briefly decided on the script as a group as well but our script changed the further along the filming went as we begun to realise certain lines didn’t have relevance to the film.
· What have you learned from the process of making your preliminary film?
I have learnt a lot of different shots and learnt how to do a shot reverse shot effectively. I have come to the conclusion that when filming a shot reverse shot you should do all the shots you need on one character first before you move the camera and tripod otherwise the angle that the camera was facing the character changes then the shot doesn’t look as professional.
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