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