Prelim Shoot

Doing our prelim shoot was a very enjoyable and interesting for me as it was the fist time i'd ever used professional equipment and filmed something using the technique to create different angles of the shot. In my group we had Ollie and Crerar as the actors to perform a short sequence using the instructions given to us by our teacher Adam. The director of the sequence was Katie and the filming was done jointly by Lauren(me) and Ben. Using and following the storyboard given to us by Adam, we began shooting by firstly bubbled our camera (Sony NX5) and got the white balance right and even by holding a blank white piece of paper in front of the camera. For the opening shot we just used a simple blank white piece of paper with our names written on it the moved on to the more complicated shots using different angles. We had help and advice given to us by Paul to help us complete our sequence and gave us a useful tip that we should shoot the whole scene with a wide shot, then the sequence all again with an close up shot, over the shoulder and mid shot etc..
After finishing all the shots we needed to create we were then able to add some of our own resulting in a better understanding of the story in our sequence such as the over the shoulder shot of Crerar looking at pictures of her "husband" on her phone. We did this because our story was about a woman being told by her lover to run away with him before her husband gets back.

Second part of the storyboard that we were asked to film:

                                             

We were then tasked to take this further by coming up with our own storyline to go with the scene in which our group decided to have Crerar and Ollie as the actors as act as two lovers where Ollie was pleading Crerar to tell her husband about their relationship. Although quite serious some comedic values were added by having Ollie do a Scottish accent. As a group I thought we worked really well together, despite the few giggles and laughs along the way we worked very hard and managed to complete the task and have great results.

 

 

Photos of the Filming

We were in the studio using different props such as a sofa, desk, door and a white backboard to help create the scene 

Katy, Ben and I were in charge of the filming (with the help from an expert of course)

Ollie and Crerar were in charge of acting

Overall I really enjoyed doing this task and learnt some really interesting things along the way with filming and how to create different scenes.