Thursday 25 April 2013

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

It is clear that I am much more capable now than I was when I carried out my preliminary task. If we look back at my preliminary task it wasn't a very well-produced scene and had numerous errors such as continuity issues and the breaking of the 180 degree rule which would leave the audience confused as to where the character is on screen. We had to keep these rules in mind whilst filming our opening scene. The match-on action in our opening scene for 'House of Heartbreaks' was key due to the fact that the central idea of our scene is Kevin having the exact same argument with 3 different girlfriends. In order to get the viewer to see that the scene is all supposed to be one argument, we had to create clear and fluid match-on action. The script and shot list was carefully planned and came into better use compared to the script and shot list for our preliminary task. In the preliminary task, we was not getting marked on the project on which we was producing, so we decided to cut some corners and forget about making a story board and writing a script since we didn't think that it really mattered, but after the scene was edited, we could see that a story board and script was needed because there was no fluidity so we knew it was key to create a script and story board. Again like the match-on action, the script had a big role in my opening scene of 'House of Heartbreaks' because the dialogue was necessary to illustrate that the concept of the scene to fluidly show the same argument between Kevin and three different girlfriends but making it appear to be one argument and to make sure the actors and actresses do the same thing each time we film a shot from a different angle to ensure the scene flows. When it came to filming, we was tempted to film on both sides of the room, but we could see that we that this would break the 180 degree rule which we broke in the preliminary task and this would leave the viewer confused as to who the characters are talking to and also, we was going to film on the other side of the room because from one of the angles which we first filmed, we would be able to see the camera man, Conner,  in the mirror, so we had to place the camera in the right position in order to ensure that we do not see Conner in the mirror. In the preliminary task, on the 30th second, I sit down with my legs facing the camera and then it cuts to an over the shoulder the shot facing me and my legs are facing Conner which is bad continuity and fluidity, so we made sure we was standing in the same position every time we had to cut and shoot from another angle to make sure we are not in a different place when we shoot from the next angle. Conner did suggest to just film the shoots on their own which we done in the preliminary task, instead of playing the whole scene through each time but like in the preliminary task, the fluidity was not good so in order to create the best fluidity we would have to act the scene through each time from different camera positions.

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