Looking back at your Preliminary Task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
(1)
What brief were you working to?
The Preliminary Task involved filming and editing a brief video covering the four essential
filming
rules/techniques: match‐on‐action, the 180 degree rule, shot-reverses-shot and
continuity. These new skills were demonstrated in a short video clip of a conversation
between two people. This conversation involved the person opening the door and walking
into the room, walking into the room and sitting in the chair across from his partner and has
a brief conversation. This helped us perform our main task of filming and editing our final
opening two minutes of the film as we applied all the rules and techniques in this task.
(2) Our Preliminary Task
Before we started planning our own preliminary task, we watched examples of how the 4
essential techniques were edited into videos and films to help us understand the use of
them. We had to take caution when filming shots such as opening the door and walking into
the room, as we had to keep continuity and match on action accurate. To keep match on
action we had to ensure that the person walking into the room entered with the correct foot
first in each shot we used so it follows on to the next clip smoothly. We ensured our over the
shoulder shots were over the correct shoulders so it would not break continuity when
showing shot‐reverse‐shot, for example, we made sure to film our clips over the opposite
shoulders for both people.
(3) Using our preliminary exercise to develop our film
After we had filmed our preliminary exercise i felt like i was more confident with using the
rules, so i felt confident in applying them in our final production when filming and editing,
such as the 180 degree rule which is important as breaking that breaks continuity of the film,
leading to confusion. One example in our film where we used this was the shot of our main
character exiting the room to be stopped by a zombie, then chased down the corridor by it.
If broken the rule at this point, then it would have looked like our character was running in
two different directions.

In our film, we purposely broke continuity a couple of times as we believed it would have a
large impact on the audience in this specific genre. We believed it would put the audience
on edge and make them feel uneasy as it is not often used in films. to do this we used jump
cuts.

However, we did make sure match on action was continuous throughout our film because it
gives it more natural feeling for the audience as it is fluent, so it could give them a sense as
they are involved in the film. one example of this is when Rudy is waking up from the bed,
where we matched a close up shot and a mid shot.

(4) What improvements can you see?
I believe the preliminary exercise enabled us to practise and gain knowledge which we could
contribute to the filming of our final product. Whilst experimenting with these rules, we
could identify which rules we should pay most attention to whilst filming to ensure
continuity was not broken. It also gave us experience with Final Cut Pro and the camera. We
were able to learn the basics so when we put our film together, we could spend most of our
ime with effects and sounds, as we weren’t confused with the basics. We could also
experiment with a variety of shots, such as the worm eye view.
In the beginning, all of our group felt nervous about making mistakes whilst editing and
filming, and due to our main characters (Rudy and the zombie) wearing make up, we felt
pressured because if we had to re film due to mistakes, the makeup would have to be re
done to perfection. However, due to preliminary exercise giving us early knowledge, we
were successful in not doing so. In the end, i felt extremely confident with editing our film.



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