My Preliminary Final

To begin with, each person in our group contributed with their own views on how to create the script for our preliminary task. In order to fulfill the requirements for the task, we created a fairly complicated script which would was too long. Therefore, we took certain parts out of the scirpt in order to be more efficient whilst filming. The discussion was fairly efficient because we all agreed and put in our ideas apart from the length of the scirpt which was the only obviouos flaw. Key decisions made were to be decisive and co operative.

The planning of our preliminary task went fairly well. We managed to eventually create a script to fulfill the criteria for the tasks and we also formed a shotlist aswell as a storyboard. The main characters were Snehal and Rahul and we decided to film two friends, one of them who had been ignoring any contact with the other for some reason (Rahul).
We tried to be efficient during the shooting of the film. For example, when there was a shot in a classroom, we did every shot in the the class room before moving on to the next setting. We also checked each shot after we filmed to make sure that it was suitable as it would prevent us from having to re film if there was any issues during the editing phase.
The key elements from the brief that had to be demonstrated were continuity, an over the shoulder conversation and a shot of a character walking in a corrider. Our group handle each element well and successfully managed to show this in our task. We made only one mistake; we crossed the 180 degree rule during the two shot and the over the shoulder conversation. I was most pleased with the filming of the over the shoulder scene as it came out well. I was also pleased with the editing as it keeps the audiences attention due to the quick cuts. We had a point of view shot, a shot behind snehal (character sitting) and the quick cuts when rahul (character walking along the corridor) entered the room.
I learnt that crossing the 180 degree rule may mislead the viewers as it looks as though the characters look out of place. I also learnt on final cut that by pressing the backspace button, you can easily remove the blank space with no clips.


Below are some screen grabs of our key elements that i had to demonstrate: