Analysis of preliminery

We learnt to do variety of different things while completing the preliminary; which all helped us immensely. Learning to use the tripod was crucial to the preliminery task, and will be for the main task. The tripod has helped us achieve a number of different shots that without the tripod we would of found it very difficult to achieve, for example a pan shot. We then were able to create all of our shot list shots using the tripod. I feel this task has improved ourselves and will benifit our film opening when we next use the equipment. Most importantly we learnt how to work in a group productively, we collectively had many ideas and we had to ensure we compromised, and that everyone's idea was given a fair chance. We then took the ideas we thought were best, to create our piece as a group

Camera Shots

We used a variety of different camera angles throughout the filming of are preliminary task. For example: “ Medium pan shot”, we had trouble filming this shot at first, as we had to time the camera to the pace of the actors walk. However we were then able to film the shot by slowing the actors walk down. We also included an “Extreme close up” of a hand opening a door handle to break up the shots and to make it a lot more interesting to the viewer. Another shot we included was the “Shot reverse shot” we stuck to the 180 degree line however we found the shot reverse challenging as we only had one camera so to solve this we filmed the sequence a number of times from both angles.

Sound
All our sound on the preliminary task was “Diagetic” or “Ambient” sound. This includes footsteps and the creek of the door. We also had “Stichomythic” dialog between the student and the teacher. This shows the viewer the plot of the piece. On final cut pro we used the sound of other scene (footsteps) and pasted it over another scene which had background noise of people talking, this also helped to link one shot to another shot; the footsteps acted as a “Sound bridge”.

Editing
We linked all our different camera angles together to create fast cut seamless editing to help make the sequence flow and create tension. We added “Parallel” editing of the student hands nervously twitching in the classroom. On final cut pro we used the sound of other scene (footsteps) and pasted it over another scene which had background noise of people talking, this also helped to link one shot to another shot; the footsteps acted as a “Sound bridge”.

Mise-en-scene
As we had to film in the college we decide to correlate the story of the piece to the college. This included: Classrooms, long corridors, desks, student and a teacher.