Prelim Task Evaluation

180 degree rule-

This is when the camera must only film within 180 degrees from where it is. This enable the orientation of the scene to be understandable for the audience. This is demonstrated in my film through the way the camera only stays within 180 degrees of the two characters and we are therefore able to stay in orientation. 

Match on action-

This is an editing technique that allows all clips to flow continuously. It shows different shots from the same point of a scene allowing the audience to be distracted from the slight cutting of shots and therefore makes the film stay realistic. This is shown in my film, for example, when the folders first hit the floor. A shot is taken of the characters bumping into each other, on the floor with the folders and then standing up with them- this all in one continuous shot.

Eye line match-

This is when the camera is positioned at the same level as the characters eye. This creates the illusion that you are seeing this character as the other person is. We are able to see this in my film when the dialogue first begins, first from the female characters point of view and then swapping to the male.

Shot Reverse Shot-

This is when we see one character looking at the other (eye line match) and straight after we can see the other character looking back from another viewpoint. This is demonstrated through the first few eye line matches. 

Story Board too Filming it 

We created a story board describing the different characters, what they did, the shots and dialogue with detailed pictures to show what the final shot should look like. This was an easy process apart from creating the dialogue as it was difficult to make it so the film didn't feel unrealistic. However an advantage of the story board was that it could be used as a guide to refer to when actually filming. 

This was completely different to how the filming actually played out as we didn't consider the factors we couldn't control, for example people wanting to walk past as we were filming in a haul accessible to all pupils. As a result we had to keep stopping the camera to either let someone go past or because a scene was interrupted which also took up more of our time as we had to re-film scenes. 

Editing

I loved the editing process as its my favourite part of media. I learnt, firstly, how to use Adobe Premiere as it was a programme I had never used before. I first learnt how to cut clips through double clicking the selected clip and then clicking the 'open' and 'closed' brackets at the point of the clip I wanted it to begin and end. I also created title such as the 'So Cliche' that appeared down the bannister. I was able to do this through taking the timeline to the point i wanted the title to appear, adding a title and then drawing a text box and rotating it to fit the bannister. Transitions were also simple to do once I learnt you had to choose which one i wanted and then drag it over to the gap i wanted it to go in.