Blog update: Prelim Task

A) My role in the editing process was connecting the camera to the mac, cropping the footage to cut out unwanted things such as people, typing the words on the slides for the credits etc and adding transitions to make the change between shots smooth, also I helped give ides and tips to the other members of the group.

B) We met the brief by having match on action (door handle pushed/feet walking through door), 180 degree rule (staying to one half of the axis of action), we edited these different things by cutting the action and placing a corresponding piece of footage to continue the sequence for match on action, for 180 degree rule we found the axis of action and just stayed on this and did not cross it.

C) In our group I feel that the actors worked well, and as a group we worked well from the planning all the way to the editing process. To improve this I feel that we could have took more shots for each scene especially match on action, and also chose a different setting where there was no noise pollution by other groups performing their sequence.

prelim group 1

preliminary filming task

For our preliminary task we set our piece in a living room, so we thought of all the rooms in the school that could represent a living room and we thought of the sixth form common room. This is a good choice as it has soft chairs, a TV and small coffee tables, like a stereo typical living room.

we filmed the 180 degree rule by sticking to one half of the scene we set up so we did not go past the axis of action. we filmed the match on action by recording the door handle getting pushed down, feet walking then the actress in the room next to the other character.

we had to adapt our original plans as we did not have a living room to shoot in, also we added some extra scene into the piece that we didn't originally 

Prelim task

What will the prelim entail?
Film a 30 second piece of footage which will demonstrate the shot/reverse shot, 180 degree and match on action rules.

What the two rules you must demonstrate mean.
180 degree rule- the camera can move in a half circle along the axis of action to show the characters/ centre of attention, to show them facing different directions
Match on action- cutting a piece of action footage and then placing the next shot after it to continue the sequence, e.g. door handle going down, cut, person is in room

A summary of your initial idea.
Our idea is of a young religious woman returning from university and confessing to her ultra religious mother that she is pregnant.

script for prelinminary

Actions.
Dialogue.

Mum Sits Down In The Front Room.
Front Door opens and the Daughter Storms In.


MUM: Stands Up. What Are you doing here!? You are supposed to be at university studying over the half term!

DAUGHTER:  Sits Down On Opposite Chair. And hello to you to.

MUM: Yes, sorry, hello. But why are you back? is there something wrong? you haven't been kicked out     hav...

DAUGHTER: Mum! no its none of that.

MUM: sits down. Thank Jesus in heaven.

DAUGHTER: Mum i need to talk to you, i really do need to say something, i don't know quite how to put it and um, i don't want you to be dissapointed with me and dad, oh my lord dad, please let him forgive me.

MUM: Your waffeling, what is it babe, i'm sure we can sort it out, please tell me.

DAUGHTER: Mum! I'm. I'm. I'm. PREGNANT!

MUM: What!? How in Gods name did you manage that, you cant of had sex, no sex before marriage, you've been told that from a young age, we brought you up to think that, oh where did i go wrong, i can't believe th...

DAUGHTER: MUM! what do i do?!

MUM: We can sort this, fix it all, how far along are you?

DAUGHTER: Stands up and opens coat.  11 months...

MUM: WHAT!? Faints.

DAUGHTER: No wait. laughs. 9 months!

END.