Preliminary task - Mr.Smith

Preliminary task - Mr.Smith

The reason why we have done the preliminary task is to gain experience and the feel of what it's like to shoot a film and record on a professional level for the first time. The task was to record a short video of ourselves using various camera angles and techniques that we have previously learned during our research stage. We then had to then edit down the shots taken to turn it into the 30 second video but fit it all in all the shots we took.     

The scenario of the video was two people talking about their AS subjects in a classroom and about the struggles. The conversation was between me and Gizem

Group roles for this task was:

• Amani (me) - Person 1 talking about subjects (actor)
• Gizem - Person 2 talking about subjects (actor)
• Hazal - Camera Operator (Filming the preliminary task)
• Asli - Camera Operator

 

Problems and difficulties during the procedure: The difficulties that we encountered on this task was the lack of filming and the amount of shots that group had filmed. When recording our camera operators ran out of ideas on what angles to shoot so we didn't do as many shots as we possibly could.   

Another difficulty that was encountered during editing was due to the amount of footage we had and because of the lack of various shots we couldn't make a lot of edits otherwise we wouldn't have 30 seconds worth of footage. So we couldn't fit in a lot of edits and shots because we didn't record a lot of them.

Conclusion: I have learned that in order to have a film that is 2 minutes long a lot of thought has to go into filming in order to have enough material to edit  because if we don't have a lot of footage we will struggle during the editing week that follows after filming and we may need to go out and record some more which would be a waste of time also if we are not creative enough and don't come up with a wider variety of shots then our film won't look professional or serious.