Preliminary Task

Posted By ANETA


We have been asked to work as a group of four people in order to produce a piece of work which was called preliminary task. We had to come up with an idea of approximately 2 minutes sequence of someone being filmed coming through the door and walking across the room to sit down. There was not a lot of dialogue used as you are able to see while you are watching the clip above. This task taught me of how to work with a group of people and teach me new media skills that were very useful later on when producing my final piece especially with the acting because as you can see I was one of the actors in this clip. However, there were some ups and downs such as: time management, the use of the camera (as this was only the second time we were able to use the equipment), lighting the characters in the clip and setting everything up so that we were able to use them. I think this experience was very useful as it taught me new things and made me realise how working with the camera is very important in order to know how to use it correctly so it reflects well on my final piece. Overall, i got to experience with different things and i learnt a lot that i put in to use while i filmed some of my final movie for my coursework, which was also working as a group task.

The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters which in this task it took place where me (Aneta) and the other character (Simona) was sitting opposite eachother behind the table looking at each other and as a task we had to include a short dialogue which we had to come up with as a group. The rule was used once but for a little while which shows that the characters are talking to eachother and keeping the eye line in place.