Preliminary Task Evaluation

For our preliminary task we shot in one of the media class rooms. This location ending up working well for our task, as the lighting was good to work with, the the ambiance the room gave worked. I helped set up everything at the beginning and instructed the actors as to what they were to do and where they needed to be. My other job was also to stand out side and tell Archie when he needed to enter the room. I thought that the lighting should be dark with some light so you could just see their faces and body, this gave the effect or tension and something bad happening in the scene. The lighting was effective as it showed Millie scared and Archie as a big guy who was forcing Millie to do something. Our camera was set up correctly, we did colour bars at the beginning on the tape for 30 seconds and set up the exposure and aperture right, the only issue we had with the camera was it had a faulty microphone, so we would just have to dub the voices in using a voice over. At every shot we made sure the tripod was level and at the right angle. We checked the frames on each shot to make sure they were correct, and each take we did, we repeated to make sure we had the best shot we could get. The angles were appropriate for the shots, to make Archie look like the more dominant one and Millie to look weak. We used the storyboard to shoot our shots, and we started with all our wide shoots first, and had our actors run through the storyboard over and over again until we thought we had all our shots we needed. We then did the same for are mid shots, close ups, point of view shots, and our different angle shots. The reason for re taking all the shots, is so in editing you can cut the ones that you do not think fit as well, and have the clip looking natural.