Lauren's Media Studies

The preliminary task was based on a person entering a room through a door, walking across the room, sitting down and exchanging brief conversation. I didn't find this task particularly hard as we were only using 3 camera techniques and the short exchange of conversation was easy to write. I used a video camera and placed it on a tripod so it would move easily around the room and i could alter the height. I used imovie for the first time to edit my task which was quite a challenge at first because i found it quite confusing but you learn as you go! I started planning this task by first researching the camera techniques i needed to include and how they would be used and then i created a storyboard outlining what the two people were going to do and say. I stuck to my plan as it was quite useful to prompt the actors and to know what angle i would be filming from. When Axil came in, he gave us some tips on how to make my preliminary task better, he said that you should film the dialog...

Last Week, one of Mrs Williams friends Axil came into school to give us some tips on how to make our filming better. He is a professional cameraman so knows what he is doing in the filming world. He suggested that we should film everything in frame when doing a shot-reverse-shot so you can reverse it whilst editing. He also suggested that we should match angles more carefully, keeping the head sizes in the camera frame the same, so it doesn't look like its jumping around. While Axil was with us, we practised how to film a perfect preliminary task by keeping the camera frame the same and following the actors with the camera at a steady speed.

This is my final video which i filmed and edited for my preliminary task, as you can see i used a simple conversation which i knew would be easy for the actors to follow.

This is my storyboard which i used for my preliminary task. I found that by creating a storyboard this made the task slightly easier because you knew exactly which angles to film from and what you wanted your actors to do and say.

Today i completely finished filming and editing my preliminary task. I have managed to include all the shots i needed (Match-on-Action, shot-reverse-shot and 180-degree rule), next lesson i will be able to upload my preliminary task to blogger and I'm looking forward to seeing the end result!