Evaluation

Our brief was to create a small film of a conversation including two people which demonstrated a match on action, shot reverse shot and kept to the 180 degree line rule. We before studied what all these things were that we had to include. A match on action is when the perspective of the camera changes during a scene but the scene continues to flow. For example, like when someone is walking through a door. A shot reverse shot is generally used during conversations so you can see both of the characters, what they are saying and their reactions to the other peoples speech. This is done by cutting between people and constantly changing between the two people. The 180 degree line rule is to make sure the background doesn't change throughout a scene. You would imagine a line straight through the middle of the two people and stick to one side of it during filming to assure that the background doesn't change and the viewer doesn't get confused.

In order to get a better final outcome we needed to plan our short film. We did this by firstly producing our scripts of the conversation to make sure we knew what to say throughout the film we put this onto celtx which allowed us to produce it in the correct script form. After this we had to storyboard the scripts in order to make sure we knew which shots to put where and when to include them. We made a list of different shots in which we needed to include to make or film the best it could be. We also had to do some location research to find out which was the best place for us to film our conversation. After we found our setting we had to do a risk assessment to make sure that the setting was safe and there were no specific hazards which would affect filming.

To film this piece we had to make sure our camera was set up correctly on the tripod so it didn't move and affect he film. We firstly had to set the tripod up in the corridor to film our first character walking down towards the door and make sure it was framed up correctly. Once we had filmed this we had to keep repeating certain parts of the scene to make sure it can overlap correctly when it came to editing. We went on to film other scenes in the same way changing the camera position each time to enable good editing. The only difficulties we had with filming is that it was difficult not to laugh as the situation seemed awkward and un-natural. After recovering from laughing the film went pretty well and we had no other problems.

To edit the film we used 'final cut'. This software was pretty easy to use to say it was the first time we had used it. We firstly had to link our cameras up to the computer and sync all of our footage to the software. We had to find the correct scenes we needed and dragged and dropped them into the bottom tool bar and cut them to the correct length. Once we had all the footage edited correctly we then went onto editing the sound by doing the same thing but sometimes overlapped sound and images so they merged together better and flowed more. After we was happy with the edit we had to insert text to say that it was our preliminary exercise and include the group members names. We did this by dragging the film back by roughly 4 seconds and adding a new black text screen and simply typing in the things we needed. Once we had done this we decided to add a fade in effect from the text to the first scene to make it flow better.

I believe our film demonstrates the brief as we have included all the things listed such as the 180 degree line rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. We used lots of shots to make sure we covered the brief and didn't miss anything out. We really carefully planned out our film before starting to film it to ensure everything was included. I believe we filmed our film to the best of our ability and included everything we possibly could to meet the criteria. We used match on actions when the character walked down to the door, opened it and then went through it. Shot reverse shots were used as well as a two shot when the conversation was taking place and we kept to the 180 degree line rule all the way through the filming of the conversation.