Preliminary Exercise

This preliminary exercise is to show some basic skills in using the camera and showing our editing skills. We got two friends to act in this short video.

Our preliminary exercise is a scene of about thirty seconds. It is simple in that all it consists of is a person entering a room and engaging in conversation with another person. Our shots were all framed quite well, with the main issue being the second actor leaning forward as she talks. We used the rule of thirds and eye line match to make sure that not only our shots were framed correctly but also to ensure that it appeared that the actors were looking at each other when talking. We were careful when selecting a location for the filming because we had to choose a place where there was not much background noise, back lighting or obvious obstructions in the background that may make our shots cluttered of confusing. We did not break the 180 degree rule by not crossing an invisible line that runs between the two people in the shot. If we had broken this, it would have made our scene confusing.

After editing, we had a fairly well put together match on action. We had no real issues except for the computer program crashing. However, it was only after exportation that we realized that we did not have an establishing shot; but I believe that we could get away with this due to the way we filmed the girl walking through the room. We managed to pull off the invisible transactions.

So, if we were to do this exercise again, we would defiantly insert an establishing extreme long shot or even an over the shoulder shot just to show the location of the person in the room. Also, we would re-film the dialogue from person 2 because they moved into the shot a bit too much. Our group of two worked well with this and our actors were of great help.