Wednesday 15 October 2014


Pre - Lim Task ( Film and Media )

Filming a short film, which dialogue between to people


 

For out pre-lim film and media task, we were split into groups  of 5-4 people and were asked to all contribute to the filming of a very simple story board. The short was simple dialogue between two actors, one who entered the room who talk to the the other, and then leave the room. the story board containing several camera angles and shots, we were also asked to include our own shots that we thought would be relevant to the final piece, i.e. close ups, extra shots and different experimentations with the original story boards angles to see if we could improve them.

 

In the group i was in, there were the two actors, one of them being me, a director and a D.O.P., and we filmed in the departments editing suite, and for the sake of simplicity of filming we reversed the shots in the story boards so that actions that happened on the right would happen on the left, as the door the actors was entering from was on the wrong side of the room, and there was no space for the camera to be in the right place. So we improvised.

 

Though each shot in the scene was different, we filmed the whole seen from every angle displayed on the story board, this allows us to be able to experiment when editing during post production, and be able to have more options if it turns out something went wrong on set, like a continuity error. we never reviewed the footage to save time, so we would sometimes repeat shots, just to be safe. Close up shots didnt require us to film the whole seen again, but we did have to careful as to make the actions in the close ups match the actions in the main shots.

 

The few problems that we ran into were, missed lines, misread lines, and the movements had to be just right in front of camera so that the right shot could be done, we often found that myself or the other actor were obstructing the view the cameraman(woman) was trying to get for the shot. The director also made me self conscious about a huffsound that i seemed to make at the end of every sentence, which slowed the process as every time i did, after it was picked up on, all on set would burst out laughing and would have have to shoot all over again.

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