Preliminary Task - Georgiou

Preliminary Task

(Liam-Alex-Daniel)

What was the purpose of this task?

The purpose of this task was was to get used to the equipment which was the camera and tripod. With this we created 40 seconds of footage which we used different camera shots taken from different angles. It also helped us gain more experience to how and where we place the camera to make our camera shots more effective. We had a lesson to film this in, basically 40 minutes as we had to quickly plan where and what we were going to film.


What went well?

What went well was that we were able to work together very well to create a small scene in not much time. We got allot of different camera shot in and most of them were smooth when we were editing. Like when I opened the door we used 3 scenes that ran smoothly when played. This was because I had to do do the exact same thing for it to look perfect. Some camera shot were a challenge like in the scene when i was talking to Alex we didn't know where to stand or put the camera, but we managed to do it in the end.


What went wrong?

Only a couple of things that went wrong (could have been better)... in the first scene when I was walking towards the door the camera was shacking. This is because we dint have enough room to do a panning shot. We were able to film it though by having Liam hold it as still as he could while panning at the same time. Also in the scene when myself and Alex were talking we didn't know what to say completely, so we had to make it up. Apart from that i think we did well, only some scenes which could have been better if we had more time and experience with the equipment. Lastly we went over our time limit by 10-20 minutes which could be costly in the filming industry.

How will this task assist you when creating your own thriller?

This task has assisted us with creating our thriller opening as it has given us some basic experience on how to use the equipment such as the camera and tripod. We learned that we may not have enough room in some scenes to place the tripod so we will have to use our imagination to make it happen. We also learned that's its best to keep checking on how much battery the camera has as it effects the filming if it dies.

During our recording we found out that some camera shots looked better for some scenes than other shots did. This will help us allot as we will be looking to experiment different camera shots when we film our thriller to get the best scenes, angles and shots.

We were not able to the lighting we will be using for our thriller opening as it is set at night. However we have plenty of time to film and experiment with more camera techniques and lighting outside of school. We not have to worry about sound as we will use music in the opening to our thriller.