Premliminary Task Evaluation

We filmed in the editing suite this worked because we wanted to create a classroom effect to reenact a columbine massacre situation. We all took an equal role of filming, I filmed the close up shot and the shot of the gun which we cut and edited later on in the editing suite. The lighting was hard and fairly bright this was important as we just wanted to create a classroom light so that the scene didn’t look suspicious at all, this was effective as it was verisimilitude.

We had learnt from out mistakes in our practice run through where we broke the 180 degree rule and filmed half of the scene hand held so when we came to do our final preliminary task we didn’t make many technical mistakes. We checked the tripod was level by bubbling it to make sure the shot was straight and checked that the shot was in the frame correctly as these were also things that were not quite right on our run through. We tried to do as many shots and different angles as possible such as low angle shot, wide shot, pan and till shots and close up shots. We were following a script which was slightly different from the storyboard as we changed it to fit our scene slightly better; we thought that we should change it to be slightly more direct to make it more exciting and to build tension. We conformed to the 180 degree rule as we had learnt from previous mistakes in a practice run. We used the appropriate terminology to make sure that everyone was aware of what was going on.

I have learnt a lot by doing this task such as: how to bubble a tripod, how to use the camera, discovered more shots, how to white balance and how to zoom.