Filming the Prelim

I was in a group of four people for our prelim filming task, which was filmed in a classroom. We white balanced the camera to make sure it was right for the lighting in the room, and we had to make sure the exposure was correct. We started our task with an establishing shot, and filmed the whole of the sequence using this type of shot. We then did the same with an over-the-shoulder shot facing our first character, and then filmed it the whole way through facing the second character. We repeated this process of filming the sequence the whole way through for our close-up shots of both characters. We filmed like this so that editing would be easier, as we had more shots to work with, and so that we didn't miss anything crucial. We then did some of our own improvised shots, such as focusing on the sliding back and forth of the rubix cube, the slamming of the cube, and the entry of our first character in to the room. One problem we did find was that because of the room we had to film in, the lighting was often quite hard to get right. We also had a few problems with getting an over-the-shoulder shot of character two, as character one kept blocking his face due to the fact he was standing and character two was sitting. To fix this we had to put the tripod quite high up, to match the shoulder of character one, creating a low angle, over-the-shoulder shot. One thing we made sure of was that we didn't break the 180 degree rule, to keep the continuity. I enjoyed filming the task, and it taught me a lot of adjusting the camera to suit different shot types.