Preliminary Task - Production

During the production process we had to pay heed to 3 key factors. The camera angles, continuity and finally the character placing.

After we had received another groups story board we set about filming, one major problem we picked up on was that no one throughout our group had any experience when it came down to useing the camera. Soon we realised that the only way we become more confident with the camera was to get as much experience with it as we could in the time given. No one was really sure where the camera would give us the best shots and we had to rely on the clear story board and trial and elimination. To start off with we had the camera zoomed in way too far to provide a clear shot that encorporated both characters with parts being cut out. To get around this problem next time we will have to keep the character in the exact spot where we filmed them and avoid any knock or movement towards the camera.

Continuity looked like a hard one to keep tabs on from the very start, I thought that we had done a good job on keeping eveything the same when we filmed. As we found out after watching our clip during editing there were scenes where the lighting had changed and objects in the background had been rearranged. Our lighting issue was that in our first scenes there was an open blind in the corner, next time we see this blind it has been rolled up. We had done this to create a lighter enviroment in the room, little did we realise it would affect our continuity.

In general i think that our group perfomed very good, we voted on who would be the best actor would be to represent our group in the filming. We also took it in turns to film, we all took part in some sort of directing whether it be deciding where the camera would be placed to helping actors perform to their full potential. One major fault was getting the shots correct, we didn't get accustomed to the camera zooming in and out at the start and end of the shots, therefore we ended up with shots growing darker in our film. We will need to take little things like these in consideration for when we do our final piece.

Next time I believe each member of our group will remeber the mistakes made in the production process and this will benefit each of us in the future to create a perfect final piece.