Preliminary task Evaluation

Location: Hurtwood house editing suit.
we used the door to the private study room as the entrance and exit where wells our male actor and had joe already standing in the room leaning slightly against the wall. the lighting was good.

During the filming we all gave input in the group, I was manning the camera and giving ideas for shots, I asked everyone to confirm that my shot was in focus.

Lighting
we used natural lighting from the room so the overhead lights. this was not a huge importance to the scene as the item in question passed on was a rubix cube, taking a slightly comical twist on our preliminary task. the light was not specifically effective and did not change anything within our shots, because all the lights used in the shots where just to light up the whole shot as a wash.

During our filming

• we set up the camera properly, we bubbled the camera (meaning we made sure the camera was still and flat on the horizon) everytime we filmed and we made sure we white balaced the room.
• after each shot we would move into another shot, checking that we bubbled the camera and the tripod.
• we checked that the shot was correctly framed each time. remembering the rule of thirds.
• during the filming we made sure to not cross the 180 degree line and to remember the rule of thirds while setting the shot up, we also put the height of the tripod higher to get the over the shoulder shot. To keep in the slight commedy of our preliminary task we got a shot of Wells feel and he was wearing nike shoes, whose ad line is just do it, the line used thru out the script also foreshadowing the whole script.
• we shot the whole script from all the different angles starting with a long shot of the two, then a over the shoulder shot of Joe doing the whole script (while setting up for this shot we got wells to stand in the exact spot he was standing in for his lines. then we closed up on to Joes face to do the close up once again doing the script over, then switched over to Joes side to film Wells going over the whole scrip and sequence again.
• we stayed on the same side of the 180 degree line the whole time we fimed, remembering not to cross it. We may have crossed it in the final shot as Wells exits the room and walkes to the right of the camera but hopefully it worked.
• before filming we went thru the whole process correctly and before we filmed we made sure everyone was quiet, then our director called stand by at wich point we all got ready, turning over which ment i had to press the button to record and say turning over, then the director would call action at which point the actors would leave a few moments and then come on and get filmed doing the whole dualogue.

What have I learnt in terms of practical film making?
I have learnt that there are many shot that i did not know about in fiming sequences and I learnt that when you film a sequence you must always go over the whole script.