Preliminary (Practical Lesson)

My group consisted of myself, Deniz and Hilda. Our initial idea was to have a scene in the library where Deniz is watching a film and i enter the room sit down and an argument breaks out about the fact that Deniz was supposed to meet me. However, when we asked the library for permission to use they’re room, they reluctantly gave us a yes so therefore we picked a different location. 

Our next scene and setting was the canteen. Our storyline was that Deniz would be in the canteen eating and i would storm through the door and then the argument would break out.

All of our shots were filmed from lots of different angles and were filmed more than once so we could then pick to best shots when we come to edit. The first shot we used was of me walking towards the door. This was a long shot as we wanted to get a big bit of the scenery in and show the audience my surroundings. We then moved on to an extreme close up shot of my hand pushing the door open. At this point we were just experimenting with shots and testing them out. These shots were all taken from the outside of the canteen door. Hilda then took the camera through the door and then filmed me walking through the door from the inside angle, this was also a long shot. After this was a shot of Deniz stuffing her face with food, this was done from a mid-shot. Next we added in our shot- reverse- shot. Hilda filmed my face horrified that Deniz was eating. Then Deniz’ face as she was shocked that i had caught her out and then lastly my face again still horrified.

Our dialogue followed closely after this as i said ‘What are you doing, you were supposed to be on a diet’ and Deniz replies ‘what are you talking about i wasn’t doing anything i was just here on my phone?’ i then reply ‘I’ve had enough of this I’m going’ whilst a begging Deniz chases behind me out of the canteen. This is all used from a mixture of mid-shots and long shots and also from a variety of angles.

I feel that our filming of the preliminary went very well as it was our first time working together  and we all communicated really well and were able to use a variety of everyone’s ideas. Using the camera was a really useful experience because none of us had ever used cameras like this before and to get an insight into the sort of camera’s that are used in the business was very helpful.  I feel that everything went well in our group both the filming and the planning as we all open minded and worked really well together.

The only thing that ‘didn’t go well’ or we had to change was the location, but this was done swiftly in the planning mode so made no impact to our final product.