Animatic and Preliminary Task.

Films of the task.

Preliminary task:
For the preliminary task I would with Holly and Vicky, we used three different techniques which were the 180° rule, shot-reverse-shot and match on action. We did this a various amount of times as some were more successful than others, however we were able to work on this and improve our skills. We used the 180° rule so that we were able to show the audience that the characters had stayed in the same place throughout, whilst also showing them the whole of the scene. We use the technique of shot-reverse-shot to show the characters speaking, this allowed use to show the whole conversation from the point of view from both of the characters. As well as this we also used match on action which allowed use the show the continuity of Holly walking through the door, it showed her opening the door from inside the room and then walking through and continuing on, it is important that when editing this together we made sure that the cuts were placed so that the whole of the footage flowed. To make sure that all of the necessary techniques were used we had two characters that were  having a heated conversation that resulted in one of them walking out. When watching the film back one improvement that I would have made would be to improve the quality of the lighting, as some parts are are hard to see them, this is something that we would need to edit out. However the match on action that I feel was successful, as the footage flows well together.

                                                                Match on Action 

Shot reverse shot and 180 Degree

Animatic:
Before creating the animatic we had to create a storyboard so that we were able to plan out exactly what would happen in each scene, a story board was the most effective way of doing this. It also helped us to decided the props that we would need and the different camera angles that we would need. This made sure that we would be using enough of a variety of the elements to create a interesting film opening and would not leave anything out and creating the best overall film opening.

It was really helpful for use to be able to see the structure of the film opening, and how much we were able to fit into 2 minutes, which allowed us to make sure that we would include enough of the conventions whilst also including enough interesting scenes. To complete the animate we used the pictures from the storyboard and then filmed them for how long that scene would last, this also helped to estimate how long out film would have to be, and if the content would be what the audience wanted.