Monday 28 February 2011

Production Of Our Preliminary Task

When we filmed our Preliminary Task a few problems occured. These problems were that when we tried to film walking down stairs, people often walked in front of the shot so we had to keep re-shooting the clip. This often got annoying as some people didnt realise that we were shooting and as it came close to end of lessons more people walked across as they would be walking to their next lesson. One other problem that we had with out prelim was that the dialogue often was hard to hear as people walking past were talking relitively loud,. Therefore, their voices would be included into the clip, so we had to restart the shot over and over until it was completely silent.

Our group had learnt quite a lot from trying to film our Preliminary Task. One of these was we realised that dialogue whilst filming doesnt sound very good, so we agreed to prevent this problem that the start of our thriller would not have any dialogue involved, as the quality could be bad and it doesn't sound so good. Also we learnt that to make our thriller as good as it can be we would have to film in a location that not many people go to, or go early in the morning as not many people will be around at early times of the day.

I don't think that filming our prelim took as long as we first thought, as we didn't have to actually shoot quite a lot because after our stairs shot not many people walked past as we went to a place where it was relitively quiet. Also we discussed as a group a plan of what we would be filming so we knew what we were going to be filming about; so we could get on with the shooting straight away. After we had done the filming we re-watched the shooting to see if we could make any more shots to make it look much better. After making the new shots we again watched all of the recorded shots and decided that we no longer needed to shoot anything else, so we went straight onto the editing. One advantage to our shooting was that, our member of the group who filmed our prelim does photography outside of school. Therefore, he knew how to make the lighting and the frame of the shot at a perfect place for it to look good.

In our Preliminary Task i don't think we needed to change much as it was our first time filming a clip so we wasn't able to make it perfect. As we were getting used to the camera we are more confident that the final production of the thriller will be of a much higher standard of quality. The Preliminary Task helped our group work on teamwork and making decisions on where to film and what to film.

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