Preliminary Exercise: Evaluation

Preliminary Exercise: Evaluation       Courtney Smith

To film a short conversation between two people that demonstrates 180 Degree Line, Shot Reverse Shot and Match An Action.

180 Degree Line/Rule: This is where you draw an imaginary line in which you must not cross this line with the camera. If you have people sitting across from each other in a scene then you must stay on one side of the line. Once you have established which side you will film from, you cannot cross to the other side, otherwise this would be breaking the 180-degree rule and your film wouldn’t look professional and wouldn’t look right. This is very useful in continuity editing.

Shot Reverse Shot: This is where you are filming two characters and they are both looking at each other. This shows one person looking at the other and then vice versa. This is used for basic conversations.

Match On Action: This is where one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action. This is useful because it ‘skips’ to the action.

Plan: Firstly we wrote up a draft for a script and then typed it up onto Celtx. This was helpful for writing a script and I found it quite easy to get the hang of. After that we watched some videos on storyboards and then drew up our own storyboard. This helped me to establish what shots to use for which takes. Then we did location research in which we had to find/book an available and suitable environment to film in. We needed to make sure that it wasn’t noisy or busy and made sure we had enough space to film the corridor scene.

Shot List:

Firstly we had a Long Shot of person 1 walking down a corridor.

Secondly we shot a Close Up of a door handle where person 1 opened the door to walk inside.

Then we had a Medium Long Shot of person 1 walking in and sitting down inside the room.

After that we filmed a Medium Two Shot of the two people sat down.

Then we shot a Medium Close Up over person 1’s shoulder.

Then did the same Medium Close Up over person 2’s shoulder.

Risk Assessment:

You could drop the camera on your foot causing injury and possibly damage to the camera. To reduce the risk of this happening you can ensure that the camera is held tightly (if handheld) or make sure the camera is secured tightly onto the tripod. We made sure that the camera wasn’t loose and that nothing could injure us.

We made sure that when selecting our filming environment that it was empty, quiet and available. If it was busy someone could walk past and accidentally knock the camera, possibly causing damage to the equipment.

How we filmed the piece:

Firstly we set up our tripod to a sensible height, not too high and not too low. Then we set up our camera and made sure it was secured to the tripod. Then we set up the environment and placed chairs and made sure that the path was clear for our actors to walk safely whilst being filmed. When we started filming we used a long shot to film the person walking down the corridor. Then we used a close up shot to capture the door handle when the person uses it to walk inside. After that we used a medium long shot of person 1 walking in the room and sitting down across from person 2. Then we filmed a medium two shot of the two people sat down. Then we used medium close up to do a shot reverse shot for an over the shoulder shot over person 1’s shoulder. Then we did the same for over person 2’s shoulder.

How we edited: To edit the conversation we used final cut express. In this program we put all the shots in order and then cut the shots together so that it was smooth and that the film had no continuity errors. After that we added a title to our film so that it explained that it was our film for our preliminary exercise. Then we added a fade in effect so that it fades in smoothly after the title screen. A fade out was added at the end so that it faded to black.

Evaluation

MAX BARKER

To film a short conversation between two people that demonstrates 180-degree line, shot reverse shot and match on action.

180-degree line: this means that you have to stay on one side of two people to keep how it is viewed the same throughout the different shots. 

Shot reverse shot: this means that in a conversation between two or more people shots are taken over the shoulder of the opposite person so to view the person that’s speaking’s face and then this swaps as each person speaks.

Match on action: we need this to link two shots together to make it more realistic, also to make sure its edited to create something that you as a view would expect to happen in real life.

For planning we wrote a script on Celtex with a description of where it should be shot and who would be involved at what points.

We also did a storyboard to roughly envision what shots would need to be used throughout the whole conversation.

 

Next we went out to research locations to film our conversation and to find a suitable place to film with enough film space and reasonable resources eg. Chairs, Door.

Shot LIST

Close up:  this was used to show the door handle

Long shot: this I used to show the person walking to the door from the hall way

Medium long shot: to show the person walking into the room and sitting down.

Establishing shot: to show where the two people are in the room

Over the shoulder shot A: to view the person currently speaking.

Over the shoulder shot B: to view the next person speaking.

Risk assessment:

We made sure that there was nothing anyone could walk in to, also make sure that the chairs were all stable enough to hold a person and recognising any other dangers Eg. Things falling on people.

How it was filmed.

First we set up the camera on the corridor to establish the a long shot of walking to the door

Next we set up the camera closer to the door to get a close up of the door being opened

Now a camera is placed over the other persons shoulder to view the person walking in and sitting down.

Next we did a medium two shot with both people in focus to view where they are in the conversation.

Then over the shoulder shots to view the person that is currently speaking.

We did not have any problems while filming the conversation.

How did we edit.

We used final cut express to edit the conversation and we cut the shots together to create a match on action we did this by cutting the length down and making sure the sounds match by lengthening the amount of the sound to match the conversation.

Evaluation Prelim Ex

James Bentley

Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

What was your brief?

To film a short conversation between two people that demonstrates 180-degree line, shot reverse shot, and match on action.

Describe 180-degree line; Shot reverse shot and match on action

180-degree line: this means that you have to stay on one side of the action throughout so that it has the same viewpoint throughout.

Shot reverse shot: this means that during a conversation, shots are taken from behind the shoulder of one person, focused on the other person, then swap sides depending on which person is talking.

Match on action: this is when two shots are linked together by the action continuing from the first shot to the next.

What planning did you do?

Script: For planning we wrote a script on Celtx with a description of the location and who was to be filmed at what point.

Storyboard: We created a storyboard to plan out what was going to happen during our film, this included a list of shots and at what point they would be used.

Location: For our location research we went to find a suitable room that we could use to shoot our conversation, with enough space to film and with good resources for example, chairs.

Shot List:

Long shot: This was used as the first shot for when the person is walking down the corridor

Close up: This was used for a close up of the door handle when the person entered the room

Medium Long shot: For when the person walks in door and sits down

Medium two shot: Both people sat across from each other having a conversation

Medium close up: Over person A’s shoulder filming person B throughout the conversation

Medium Close Up: Over person B’s shoulder filming person A throughout the conversation

Risk assessment:

We made sure that there was nothing that each person could walk into, and also that both chairs they used were safe. And that nothing could fall on them while they were sat down.

How we filmed the piece

We set up the camera on the corridor to take a long shot of the person walking, we then moved the camera and zoomed in on the door handle to show the person opening it, next we moved the camera inside the room to take a medium long shot of the person entering the room and sitting down. Next we set the camera up in a medium two shot position to film the whole conversation through with both people in focus, after we had to create a medium close up over each persons shoulder to film their reactions during the conversation, we did this twice as we had to film over each persons shoulder. We did not have any problems during filming the conversation.

How we edited the piece

We used final cut express to edit our piece, we got each shot in order and cut them together so that they were transitional and smooth, we cut some of the clips down as they were longer than they needed to be, we did have to edit some of the sound down as well as some of the audio overlapped, so we edited it so that it was smooth throughout.

 These show the 180-degree line and the shot reverse shot

 These show the match on action

Evaluation

Preliminary Exercise: Evaluation       Courtney Smith

To film a short conversation between two people that demonstrates 180 Degree Line, Shot Reverse Shot and Match An Action.

180 Degree Line/Rule: This is where you draw an imaginary line in which you must not cross this line with the camera. If you have people sitting across from each other in a scene then you must stay on one side of the line. Once you have established which side you will film from, you cannot cross to the other side, otherwise this would be breaking the 180-degree rule and your film wouldn’t look professional and wouldn’t look right. This is very useful in continuity editing.

Shot Reverse Shot: This is where you are filming two characters and they are both looking at each other. This shows one person looking at the other and then vice versa. This is used for basic conversations.

Match On Action: This is where one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action. This is useful because it ‘skips’ to the action.

Plan: Firstly we wrote up a draft for a script and then typed it up onto Celtx. This was helpful for writing a script and I found it quite easy to get the hang of. After that we watched some videos on storyboards and then drew up our own storyboard. This helped me to establish what shots to use for which takes. Then we did location research in which we had to find/book an available and suitable environment to film in. We needed to make sure that it wasn’t noisy or busy and made sure we had enough space to film the corridor scene.

Shot List:

Firstly we had a Long Shot of person 1 walking down a corridor.

Secondly we shot a Close Up of a door handle where person 1 opened the door to walk inside.

Then we had a Medium Long Shot of person 1 walking in and sitting down inside the room.

After that we filmed a Medium Two Shot of the two people sat down.

Then we shot a Medium Close Up over person 1’s shoulder.

Then did the same Medium Close Up over person 2’s shoulder.

Risk Assessment:

You could drop the camera on your foot causing injury and possibly damage to the camera. To reduce the risk of this happening you can ensure that the camera is held tightly (if handheld) or make sure the camera is secured tightly onto the tripod. We made sure that the camera wasn’t loose and that nothing could injure us.

We made sure that when selecting our filming environment that it was empty, quiet and available. If it was busy someone could walk past and accidentally knock the camera, possibly causing damage to the equipment.

How we filmed the piece:

Firstly we set up our tripod to a sensible height, not too high and not too low. Then we set up our camera and made sure it was secured to the tripod. Then we set up the environment and placed chairs and made sure that the path was clear for our actors to walk safely whilst being filmed. When we started filming we used a long shot to film the person walking down the corridor. Then we used a close up shot to capture the door handle when the person uses it to walk inside. After that we used a medium long shot of person 1 walking in the room and sitting down across from person 2. Then we filmed a medium two shot of the two people sat down. Then we used medium close up to do a shot reverse shot for an over the shoulder shot over person 1’s shoulder. Then we did the same for over person 2’s shoulder.

How we edited: To edit the conversation we used final cut express. In this program we put all the shots in order and then cut the shots together so that it was smooth and that the film had no continuity errors. After that we added a title to our film so that it explained that it was our film for our preliminary exercise. Then we added a fade in effect so that it fades in smoothly after the title screen. A fade out was added at the end so that it faded to black.