Preliminary task- Miss Georgiou

Preliminary task

Our preliminary task was to create a short clip of two people having a conversation, we would create this to demonstrate different camera angles and skills that we are going to include in our thriller opening clip. The clip would be no longer than a minute and the aim was to become familiar with the equitment that we would be using for our main overall thriller clip. It also gave us the chance to use an editing programme where we developed our understanding of the technology and become comfortable and more skilled when we come to editing our final task.

We had to include in our clip, a character walking in through a door, a door closing, a few lines of dialect between two characters and different camera shots. We made our clip as professional as possible by establishing the genre, setting and characters this would help us practice how we are going to do these things in our final task. Once my group (myself, Guneet and Charley) had decided where we were going to film our clip, we recruited two willing actors to take part. We were told to demonstrate: shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule  and to edit and film an actor walk through a door sit down infront of another actor and exchange a few words of dialouge. This is what we created..

After we finsihed filming, we returned to our classroom and uploaded the footage on the macs. We then went through our clips, deleted the irrelevant ones and put the ones we need in order where it would be easier to edit them. After this we edited the shots together to display different editing techniques and make them flow nicely into one another. We learnt very quickly how to use the editing software and realised it is vital to use the appropriate editing technnique in a scene as it will either make or break the clip.