Planning The Pleminary Task

To start off, we figured out who was acting and filming. We decided that me and Ivan were acting, and Ben and Callum were filming.

Then, we looked through our storyboard as a basic guideline on what our end product should look like. These also helped us with the placement of the camera in terms of angles, and shots.

In the task, dialogue had to be used, so we decided what we were going to say in the video. We chose to just use a simple conversation to not make the video long-winded or overcomplicate the editing process, or even the actual filming process because we only had 1 hour.

During the filming and editing process, I learnt many things which I think make the video more smooth as well as meeting the task criteria.

Filming - I learnt how to incorporate the 180º rule, where whilst filming, all actors are on the same side which further makes the film flow smoothly and does not make it confusing to watch as an audience, as the actors would be swapping sides if we did not incorporate the 180º rule. I also learnt how to implement shot reverse shot, which was used when two people are having a conversation. We used an over the shoulder and tried to match eyeline, to make it more realistic, and so it shows clearly that the two people are talking to each other.

Editing - I learnt basic editing skills such as using transitions like fade in and out. Other basic skills such as cutting up a video to make the end product able to flow smoothly and making a certain section of the video quieter, because of it being louder than the other segments of the video.