Account of our Prellim.

In our prelim task, I enjoyed trying all aspects of film making, there were four people in our group, and only 3 roles, so we varied the roles of contenuity, camera person and director. This gave us a varied first experience of film making. We reveiwed how to set up a tripod, setting up the camera, and how to bubble and white balance. We then had to look at the location of the shot, we were filming near cars, and had to think about filmig in the correct position so that the camera could not be seen in the reflection, and were we would get the best lighting. We also had to decide to film at in areas where we would have room to move the camera around and shoot the same scene from different angles, we discovered this when we were caught in between two cars, and could not acsess different angles so we had to chaneg the locatrion of the shot. In contenuity, we learnt how to meantally take account of every moovement of the actors, insuring that they do the same thing in each shot. I also learnt to communicate with the other members before shooting, by each member saying "stand by" then the filmer saying , "rolling camera", and the director saying "action." I feel we each worked well as a group and communicated well, and that everybody contributed equally. If I had the chance to to do it again, I feel I would like to have a longer go at being the director, as I like the way that they have Cornell over where the shots are taken from.
We were able to shoot an additional shot of the car door being opened, this is to add tension and hi-light his actions.