During our lesson during the week and the 5-8 lesson, we filmed and edited our preliminary task. This helped us to practise making a short film so we can gain experience on making our 2 minute Thriller. Before shooting the preliminary task, we discussed what exactly we wanted to shoot and how to make it flow. We were required to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. It also demonstrated match on action, Shot/reverse shot and The 180-degree rule.
One thing our group had agreed on was when filming a certain area for example, a character coming through the door; we would make sure we had some extra shots so we wouldn’t have to go and film again on another day, so the continuity wouldn't be lost.
When filming and editing we came across some problems like the dialogue, as when filming the characters when they were talking we shot extra shots like said above and we noticed that each time we shot them they would say different lines, for example on one shot a character would say ‘Hey’ and on another shot they would say ‘Hiya’, we noticed this when we got in the editing suite and cut out the unnecessary parts.
Other problems we had was with a chair we used also when filming the dialogue, whenever we shot the character coming and going through the door it didn’t match as the chair would be facing different directions, so when in the editing suite we had to do a lot of work to make sure there was continuity.
Overall I think that the preliminary task helped as it made us more aware on everything we have to do in the actual Thriller. It also helped us make all the little mistakes in this task so we won’t make them in the future.
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