In today's 5-8 lessons we learnt how to use the camera and set up the tripod. We were also shown how to put the tape into the camera and how to film and edit a short scene. This was very helpful as it gave us an idea of what was required from us in the preliminary task.We were set this task to create a fluent piece of filming before making our actual thriller to ensure our capability and for general practise.
Our preliminary task involved filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. In this exercise the majority of the shots we used were medium shots and close-up shots. After planning the shots we were going to use we started filming. We experimented with a range of shots and we came up with a short dialogue for our task.
We decided to film the short task in the college library however when we finished and looked back at the footage we realised that we had broken the 180 degree rule so we had to film it all over again. The second time we chose to film in B block, we filmed according to plan but once again when we looked back on the footage we had broken the 180 degree rule. The third time we filmed at the same place but we changed a few things around, and we finally got it right.
As Billy's role is editor, he learnt how to use the software Final cut pro to edit the footage and after that we uploaded the footage onto our YouTube account.
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