Production

Production

Throughout the prelim, we encountered problems. Those problems ranged from using the camera and tripod to making sure we didn’t break the 180 degree rule. Using the camera was very complicated to start off with. We found it hard keep the camera steady especially when we filmed a high angled shot on our character walking. Keeping the camera steady whilst walking backwards was a much harder task than we originally thought, it took us over two scenes to accomplish it.

From the Prelim I learnt that it is very easy to get carried away with filming and forget the basics. We learn this the hard way when we were forced to film our Prelim again because we failed to include the basic shots and failed to obey the rules of filming. The main thing that I learnt from shooting the Prelim was how to edit. We were told many times how important it was to understand how to edit because of how crucial it is to make the video flow and make sense to the viewer.

Our original Prelim took us two hours to complete, it took us one hour to film and another hour to edit. It wasn’t until we got our teacher to look at it that he informed us that it was missing all the basic shots that we were asked to include. We then had to film another Prelim which took a similar amount of time but this time was technically correct.

Elliott Joyner