Preliminary Task

Today we completed a preliminary task in groups of three, helping us perfect our continuity skills.
• Firstly we made a story board for our film with noted dialogue and sounds in order for our group to know what to do when it came to filming. We received a camera, tape and tripod then went to film our piece.
• Our film had to include someone; walking to open a door, crossing a room showing another character to whom the first person exchanges dialogue with. The two characters in my piece of filming are a couple; the boy is asking what’s wrong?’ to which the girl replies, ‘I’m pregnant.’
• We used continuity well in this as the girl has her hand to her face the camera then sees it from the girl’s point of view where the hand was in front of the camera.

When editing we had trouble with importing the film however we solved this by finding the camera lead was in the wrong port and there was another one on the camera in which the lead fits. We also found difficulty with our cameras as the batteries were running low, once we had a battery that was charged we could edit our film by cutting it to fit together.