Preliminary evaluation (Patsy Jones and Catherine Seiersen)

Preliminary Task evaluation
Our Preliminary task involved us filming a character walking through a hallway and sitting down opposite another character. The characters exchange three lines of dialogue each and then the character gets up and walks away into another corridor. We mainly used over the shoulder shots, long shots and medium shots to record the action but we did involve other shots like close up and shot reverse shot to add a better effect to the task. All shots were planned beforehand as well as the dialogue spoken.

We decided to film at Havering college in the B block as it's layout connected well for our shots, making it easier to keep to the 180 degree rule and keep a continuity to the shots. The only problems we came across was getting the right height of the camera so it lined up with the characters height but we soon got used to how to change the height on the tripod.

Doing this task taught us how to use the camera and the tripod correctly as well as loading the tape into the camera. We learnt how to film and edit a short sequence which gave us better knowledge for our opening sequence task. This gave us a good introduction and practise on being a director, camera person and editor. Having this knowledge has given us the knowledge and confidence to film action for our opening sequence well.