Prelimary Task

Date - 28/9/10

I filmed the preliminary task which was filming someone entering somewhere through a door and then having a conversation with someone else. I filmed this task task with Seb Baudains, Sam Sawtell and Xiangyu Ge. We filmed the task outside D6, our media room and in/near the entrance of a toilet.

Below is a step-by-step list of the shots that were used, with the mentioning of the effects of the shots and what I learned from the task:

Firstly, Xiangyu was filmed walking up to a door and opening/closing it with a still shot so that he stayed in frame and mantained his position in the centre. I had not previously realized that he camera had to be fully still for this part and I learnt this when filming.

We also filmed a couple of seconds after the door closed so that it was easier to edit this part in the future, which is also something that I did not know about before we started filming the task.

A Match on action shot was used on Xiangyu's hand when he was opening the door in order to add suspense. Also, we used this shot so that the hand opening the door was the focus as any other part of the body would have been irrelevant to show. We also made sure by doing this that his hand was in the centre of the frame so that the door handle was in frame as well.

We also then used a still shot from the other side of the door to show Xiangyu closing the door so that the rest of the area form which Xiangyu was entering was visible.

We then filmed Xiangyu opening a door of cubicle from behind him with a still shot again so that his head did not take up most of the frame and so that it added the idea of posibilty as to what was behind the door.

A shot reverse shot filmed the part where me, Eric, and Jack had our short conversation so that you saw the conversation from both points of view so that me and Xiangyu always took up equal parts of the frame. This is the effect the shot reverse shot had on our task.

Following our conversation, a panning shot was used when Xiangyu was running out of the toilet so that a clear view that he was shown and so it was obvious that he was in distress.

We did an extreme long-shot with the camera placed at the top of the corridor with Xiangyu running from far away so that it suggested that something was going to happen with the space ahead (it gives the sense of antipaction). In this shot, Xiangyu falls on his knees as his is deeply upset.

We did a low angle shot so that Xiangyu did not take up all the frame even when he was on his knees. This shot from low down also allowed us to get a good view of his emotions.