The preliminary - Final

Preliminary task

The preliminary exercise that we did for the task used a range of different camera angles in order to show a very simple narrative. Through out the preliminary exercise up until the end, the audience are able to gather that the girl that is used in the filming receives a text that is from someone asking to meet and when she goes to see her the woman "Charlotte" claims that the girl had lied to her when she questions why she had done that.

The use of the camera angle that we used are as follows:
- The match on action - when the girl is running up the stairs and through the two different doors in order to meet the woman that has messaged her.
- The 180 degree rule is not broken - between the girl and the woman when they have a conversation the 180 degree rule is not broken as the camera stays on one side of the two woman constantly to ensure that it stays fluent.
- A close up - after the receives the message to show the facial expression.
- A mid shot - to show the girls body language when she gets a text rom the woman asking to meet her.
- A long shot - to show the main girls body when movies from a room into a corridor or the building.


When looking back at the preliminary task it was easy to tell that there were some areas of improvement, that if given the chance, if I could go back and change then I would.
An example of this would be that the filming that Gaia, Ami and I produced, although placed at good angles and we over filmed, some of the clips were not quite the right level or didn't feel right. This then changes the continuity of the whole piece and then means that the tone of the piece is slightly changed depicting the obvious scene changes.
I would also take into consideration the different rooms that were being used because they clearly affect the different types of lighting that then also change the continuity of the clip.


When choosing different sounds that I could use for the clip, it seemed that some of the free sounds on the app that we were using, when put together with the clip either did not sound right or were too fast. Due to the fact that the sound effects that had all been timed and already used, the software didn't allow any areas of the speed of the sound effect being used to either be slowed down or sped up which then meat that some of the areas that we wanted to use them in, didn't seem accurate because it was all out of time and this then changed the continuity a lot.


A problem that we were issued with before we had even started filming was the fact that the device that we were going to be using for the film was an iphone 6, which meant that the sizing of it was not useful seeing as the phone holder did not adapt to be wide enough to fit the iphone 6 seeing as it was a newer edition. This then meant that for all of the shots we had to balance the phone up to different backgrounds and surfaces to make sure that all of the shots were in line and straight so that none of them were off balance or un even compared to the rest of them.