The story-line of the
preliminary task is about two associates who are passing information on
about the character who is in the background, we allowed the audience to see
both the associates however the audience doesn’t see their faces clearly until
the end this create the atmosphere of mystery which was the effect we wanted to
create. The audience sees the character who is being targeted going about her
daily work, this helped us to portray the innocence of this character which
makes them seem more like a victim which we is what we wanted.
The 180 degree rule which we didn’t break during the filming
of the preliminary task, the 180 degree rule is when the camera can’t go over
the ‘invisible line’, this invisible line is at 180 degrees this means that the
camera can’t cross the line, it should only stage on one side of the line, this
is because if the camera was to film both side of this line the audience would
get confused about where things are positioned on screen as it would result in
the characters or props on stage changing or switching positions in a scene
that should be continuous and smooth. This means that the storyline may become
more difficult to understand if the audience is focused on figuring out where
the characters are on stage. If this happens the audience may not continue to
watch the film or video that breaks the 180 degree rule as the audience may
become unfocused, and entertained by the film, this means that the film or
video hasn’t achieved its purpose. The 180 degree rule is more noticeable when
both or all the characters on screen look similar or are dressed the same, this
is because if the 180 degree rule is broken straight away then the audience
hasn’t had time to adjust to the who the characters are therefore the audience
may become confused on who the protagonist is or the villain.
The match on action shot or shot reverse shot, is when the
camera shows someone passing something to another person, the camera is zoomed
to a close up of the character’s hands both on the object and then the camera
is zoomed out to show the person taking the object out of the other person’s
hands. The shots are connected with a cut, this creates the impression of
continuity in the scene. The effect of this shot is that it creates tension and
allows the audience to focus on the typically important object, such as an
important document or even a weapon. The shot can also be portrayed through a
character opening a door, this would be created as the first shot would
typically be a close up of the character’s hand on the door handle as they
begin to open the door. The cut will then connect the second shot of the person
entering the room, the shot would be taken from inside the room and show the
character walking inside and the door closing behind them. When the shot is
used in this way the effective it has on the audience is that it presents a
continuous affect that makes the cut discrete it makes the scene flow which
means that the audience will continue to be intrigued with the scene.
A Shot Reverse Shot is here one character is where one
character is shown looking at another character and then the second character
is shown looking back at the first character, because the characters are
looking in opposite directions so the audience presumes that they are looking
at each other. The shot is considered as a ‘classical’ Hollywood style of
continuity editing.
In our Preliminary task, used the 180 degree rule when the
two characters interacted as the character remains on one side of the two
characters, and the camera doesn’t cross this line, this means that the
audience doesn’t get confused while watching the short film, the shot below
presents what part we had to be careful not to break the 180 degree rule (the
first image is the closest we got to the 180 degree line) We incorporated the
eye line match in this shot too, the two characters’ eyes are lined up on the
screen. To line up the two characters’ eyes we angled the camera so that the
character that is further away and the character who we have taken the over the
shoulder shot from, both their eyes line up. In this scene we also used the
shot reverse shot, as the two characters look at each other and the camera
presents them clearly looking at each other, the use of this shot creates
tension to the audience as they are able to see the facial expressions of both
characters (both of these shots are shown through image 1 and image 2). Within
the Preliminary task (third image) we used a match on action shot, we
incorporated this shot as the characters are passing an ‘important’ document.
This scene creates tension as the audience doesn’t know what the document contains
and they want to carry on watching as it is presented through this shot that
the document is an important part of the story-line
The filmmaking process went smoothly, we used the storyboard
to make sure we got the shots that we needed and that the storyline itself
makes sense and is as clear as we can make it for the audience. Filming within
the college was simple, this is because we had set it in a business like
environment which meant that the actors we had were already in appropriate clothes.
The shots we planned in the storyboard were very similar we had added in a
couple of shots and changed some of the order of them so that the film would
make more sense to the audience. We had a slight issue with the sound that
people made within the college, however, we were able to edit so that the
audience couldn’t hear it. When we used Adobe Premiere I learnt how to cut
clips so that they are made shorter which means that the clips we had filmed
fit smoothly together. I also learnt how to import music and sounds so that the
audio of the film is enhanced or more appealing to the audience. I also learnt
how to make the transitions make the film smoother, it also means that I am
more able to create titles that fit well with the genre of the film.
The preliminary Task
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